IN & OZ: A Novel - Couverture souple

Tomasula, Steve

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226807444 ISBN 13 : 9780226807447

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2012

Synopsis

Steve Tomasula is a novelist like no other; his experiments in narrative and design have won him a loyal following. Exemplifying Tomasula’s style, IN & OZ is a heady, avant-garde book, rooted in convincing characters even as it simultaneously subverts the genre of novel and moves it forward.

IN & OZ is a novel of art, love, and auto mechanics. The story follows five different characters—an auto designer, photographer, musical composer, poet/sculptor, and mechanic—who live in two very different places: IN, a back-alley here and now; and OZ, which reflects the desire for somewhere better. The men and women who populate Tomasula’s landscape desperately hope to fill a void in their lives through a variety of media: music, language, dirt, light, and automobiles. As the plot moves forward, the story of the residents of INand that of their counterparts in OZconverge. A fanciful allegory that tackles class relations, art, commerce, and language, IN & OZ is a tale of the human condition that is as visually compelling as it is moving.

A novel not only for fiction lovers, but also for artists of all stripes, IN & OZ creates a fantasy that illumines our own world as it lucidly builds its own.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Steve Tomasula is professor if English at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of many books, including VAS: An Opera in Flatland and The Book of Portraiture, as well as TOC: A New-Media Novel, which received the Mary Shelly Award for Excellence in Fiction, and the eLit Best Book of the Year Award. His short fiction is collected in Once Human: Stories. He has contributed short fiction and essays to a wide variety of publications, including BOMB, McSweeney's, and The Iowa Review, where he received the Iowa Prize for the most distinguished work published in any genre.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226807444
• ISBN 13: 9780226807447
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 152
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