Free City - Couverture souple

Darton, Eric

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1628973579 ISBN 13 : 9781628973570

Editeur : Dalkey Archive Press, 2020

Synopsis

An inventor living at the beginning of the Enlightenment keeps journals reflecting on everything from his inventive lovemaking to his discovery of the first binary code, caffeine stimulation, the insanity defense, and the memory of birds.

First published in 1996 to international acclaim, Eric Darton's Free City is the fictional journal of L., a seventeenth-century inventor caught in a precarious love triangle, even as his beloved northern European port town teeters on the brink of catastrophe.

In a tale laced with bawdy humor and elements of the fantastical, L. must balance the demands of his patron-a rapacious entrepreneur-against those of his sorceress lover. As L. attempts to avert calamity, he finds himself joined by the most unlikely of allies.

Weaving together historical, political and absurdist elements, Free City resonates more profoundly today than ever.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Eric Darton was born in New York City in 1950. His books include Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York's World Trade Center (Basic Books, 1999, 2011), and Free City, a novel. He teaches at Global College of Long Island University, Harry Van Arsdale Center for Labor Studies (Empire State College) and New York University. Previously, he has been an editor of Conjunctions, American Letters & Commentary and Frigatezine.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dalkey Archive Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1628973579
• ISBN 13: 9781628973570
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
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• Personne responsable: non disponible