Impotent: A Novel - Couverture souple

Roberson, Matthew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1573661481 ISBN 13 : 9781573661485

Editeur : Fiction Collective 2, 2009

Synopsis

Impotent is a collection of moving stories about a time when "it is easier to get a refill on a prescription than approval for therapy" and individuals are reduced to letters on a medical chart. In revealing vignettes, Matthew Roberson clinically catalogs the hopes, dreams, and failures of people identified only through form-like abbreviations (C— for co-dependent, I— for Insured). In these "case studies," Roberson captures his subjects' lives poignantly by supplementing their diagnoses with unconventional footnotes, lists, and medicinal warnings. Each vignette exposes a different facet of our medicated society, humanizing a multitude of conditions: depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, impotence, and dementia. In a world of domestic ennui, deadpan voices struggle to transcend numbness while simultaneously trying to manage the pain of living. Impotent is both important social commentary and engrossing fiction.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Matthew Roberson is the author of 1998.6 (FC2). He teaches at Central Michigan University and lives with his wife and children in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fiction Collective 2
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1573661481
• ISBN 13: 9781573661485
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 166
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible