The Fixed Stars: Thirty-Seven Emblems for the Perilous Season - Couverture souple

Conn, Brian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1573661538 ISBN 13 : 9781573661539

Editeur : Fiction Collective Two, 2010

Synopsis

A fable-like tale of a small community afflicted by a mysterious plague Juxtaposing barbarity and whimsy, Brian Conn's The Fixed Stars is a novel that has the tenor of a contemporary fable with nearly the same dreamlike logic. At the novel's heart are the John's Day celebration and the interactions of a small community dealing with a mystery disease. Routinely citizens are quarantined and then reintegrated into society in rituals marked by a haunting brutality. The infected and the healthy alike are quarantined. In a culture that has retreated from urbanism into a more pastoral society, the woman who nurtures spiders and the man who spins hemp exist alongside the mass acceptance of sexual promiscuity. Conn delivers a compelling portrait of a calamitous era, one tormented by pestilence, disease, violence, and post-late capitalism. An unflinching look at a world impossible to situate in time, The Fixed Stars is mythic and darkly magical.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Brian Conn studies mathematics in southern Rhode Island. He is coeditor of the journal Birkensnake.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fiction Collective Two
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1573661538
• ISBN 13: 9781573661539
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 312
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• Personne responsable: non disponible