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NY 1984 Putnam. ISBN 0-399-12870-0. Hardcover. Small octavo, 186p., cloth. Fine in Near Fine DJ, price not clipped, light wrinkling.
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About the Author
THOMAS FARBER
Recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment, Rockefeller, Fulbright, and Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor fellowships, author of many works of fiction and creative nonfiction, Thomas Farber is a Senior Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. Visit Thomas Farber on the web at thomasfarber.org
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Thomas Farber's first-person narrative is warm and oddly comforting. Usually, books about dissolving relationships are bitter and frightening, but in Farber there is gentleness and a search for understanding...[The narrator's] illusions and his hopes are so skillfully told that they become a part of our own dreams. Curves of Pursuit tells the story of relationships, the unraveling and the mending of them, in a unique way.
--Raleigh News and Observer
An impressive work from a special, energetiic talent, presented with deceptive simplicity and delicate amusement.
--Kirkus Reviews
Like the book's themes, its structure is a continual surprise of perspective...a beautiful feeling of everything coming together in space and time--and yes even in a kind of love.
--The New York Times
Farber's treatment of football as metaphor... is extraordinary...his mastery of the short story is seen in the vignette-like structure of this novel.
--Hartford Courant
Farber seizes precisely upon the feeling of each moment. The sensibility of the narrator is exquisite.
--Los Angeles Times
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- PublisherPenguin Adult HC/TR
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 0399128700
- ISBN 13 9780399128707
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages186
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