Shadowplay - Couverture souple

Lock, Norman

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0963753630 ISBN 13 : 9780963753632

Editeur : Ellipsis Press, 2009

Synopsis

In Java, a master of the shadow-puppet theater seeks to possess-by his art-a woman, who perishes as though by the contagion of his unnatural desire. Shadowplay is a meditation on story-telling as an act of seizure, a parable of obsession and of the danger of confounding the real with its representations. *** "Stories compensate for lives unlived. They are what Norman Lock, or his avatar Guntur, calls shadows, negative reflections on a backlit screen, comprising, through artistry and brief illumination, ghosts. Lock's teller is imprisoned by darkness, captivated by warriors and princesses no longer, if ever, living. Death becomes a distance from which the voices of these unliving return. It is a journey as delicious as it is threatening." -R.M. Berry *** "Wise up and get all you can of Lock. His writing was written by a writer exquisite in the singularity (read for this "genius") of his utterance." -Gordon Lish *** "[Lock's] prose is melodial, and alert to every signal from the unseen." -Gary Lutz

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Norman Lock has written novels (including LAND OF THE SNOW MEN) and short fiction as well as stage, radio and screen plays. He received the 1979 Aga Kahn Prize given by The Paris Review. He is a recipient of a 1999 fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts and a 2009 fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts--both for fiction. His novel The King of Sweden was recently published by Ravenna Press. Norman lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Helen.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ellipsis Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0963753630
• ISBN 13: 9780963753632
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 138
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible