A Marker to Measure Drift - Softcover

Maksik, Alexander

Softcover

ISBN 10: 038567919X ISBN 13: 9780385679190

Publisher: Anchor Canada, 2014

Synopsis

Alexander Maksik's electrifying, unforgettable and critically acclaimed novel is now available in paperback.
     On an island somewhere in the Aegean, Jacqueline, a young Liberian woman, veers between starvation and satiety, between the brutality of her past and the precarious uncertainty of her present in the aftermath of experiences so unspeakable that she prefers homeless numbness to the psychological confrontation she knows is inevitable. Hypnotic, highly sensual, exquisitely written, and extraordinary in its depiction of both pleasure and pain, of excruciating physical and spiritual hungers, A Marker to Measure Drift is a novel about memory, how we live with what we know, and whether and how we go forward, intact and whole, after the ravages of loss. It is beautiful, lacerating, impossible to put down. A breakthrough work from a prodigiously gifted young writer.

About this title

About the Author

ALEXANDER MAKSIK is the recipient of a Truman Capote Fellowship and a Teaching/Writing fellowship from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Harper's, Tin House, Salon, Harvard Review, The New York Times Magazine, and Narrative Magazine, among others. His first novel, You Deserve Nothing, was published in 2011 in the US and UK. Subsequent translations will appear in Italy, Spain, Germany, Russia, Korea, The Netherlands, and France.

Edition details

• Publisher: Anchor Canada
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 038567919X
• ISBN 13: 9780385679190
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240