List: A Novel - Couverture souple

Roberson, Matthew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1573661775 ISBN 13 : 9781573661775

Editeur : Fiction Collective Two, 2014

Synopsis

Vignettes of a middle-class American family told through lists, each reflecting their obsessions, their complaints, their desires, and their humanity.

A suburban family of four--a man, woman, boy, and girl--struggle through claustrophobic days crowded with home improvement projects, conflicts at work and school, a job loss, illnesses, separation, and the wearying confrontation with aging. The accoutrements of modern life--electronic devices and vehicles--have ceased to be tools that support them and have become instead the central fulcrums around which their lives wheel as they chase "cleanliness" and other high virtues of middle American life.

In Matthew Roberson's hands, the family's list-making transcends the simple goal of planning. Their lists reveal the aspirations and anxieties that lie beneath the superficial clatter of everyday activities. Fearing the aimless chaos of unplanned days, the family compulsively compiles lists as maps to steer them away from uncertainty and failure, and yet at what point does a list stop being a map and become the final destination? The family creates an illusory cloud of meaningful activity but cannot stave off the mortal entropies that mark the suburban middle class.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Matthew Roberson is the author of two novels, 1998.6 and Impotent, both published by FC2, and is the editor of a critical book, Musing the Mosaic. His short fiction has appeared in journals such as Fourteen Hills, Fiction International, and Western Humanities Review. He teaches at Central Michigan University, in Mount Pleasant, Michigan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fiction Collective Two
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1573661775
• ISBN 13: 9781573661775
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible