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Synopsis
Tree of Codes is a haunting new story by best-selling American writer, Jonathan Safran Foer. With a different die-cut on every page, Tree of Codes explores previously unchartered literary territory. Initially deemed impossible to make, the book is a first as much a sculptural object as it is a work of masterful storytelling. Tree of Codes is the story of an enormous last day of life as one character's life is chased to extinction, Foer multi-layers the story with immense, anxious, at times disorientating imagery, crossing both a sense of time and place, making the story of one person’s last day everyone’s story. Inspired to exhume a new story from an existing text, Jonathan Safran Foer has taken his "favorite" book, The Street of Crocodiles by Polish-Jewish writer Bruno Schulz, and used it as a canvas, cutting into and out of the pages, to arrive at an original new story told in Jonathan Safran Foer's own acclaimed voice.
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About the Author
Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the novels Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and a work of nonfiction, Eating Animals. His books have won numerous awards and have been translated into 36 languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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"[A]n extraordinary journey that activates the layers of time and space involved in the handling of a book and its heap of words. Jonathan Safran Foer deftly deploys sculptural means to craft a truly compelling story. In our world of screens, he welds narrative, materiality, and our reading experience into a book that remembers it actually has a body." — Olafur Eliasson, artist
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- PublisherVisual Editions
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0956569218
- ISBN 13 9780956569219
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages285
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Condition: Very Good. Very Good; Softcover; Light wear to the covers; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 0.7 lbs; Black and white covers with title in red and black lettering; 2010, Visual Editions Publishing; 285 pages; "Tree of Codes," by Jonathan Safran Foer. Seller Inventory # SKU-1400AK00203205
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Condition: Very Good. Very Good++; Softcover; Very light wear to the covers; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is tight with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 0.7 lbs; Black and white covers with title in red and black lettering; 2010, Visual Editions Publishing; 285 pages; "Tree of Codes," by Jonathan Safran Foer. Seller Inventory # SKU-1292AL03302135
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paperback. Condition: Good. This book is WILD, the author took another book and cut out most of the words to make their own art piece. Covers and edges show some rubbing, scuffing, surface browning and tearing. Because of all of the cut out bits the book squishes in an odd way. Bar code on back has surface tearing resulting in it being unreadable. The same is true of "Foer" & "Codes" on the front cover. Seller Inventory # mon0000016085
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paperback. Condition: Very Good. This book is WILD, the author took another book and cut out most of the words to make their own art piece. Covers and edges show some rubbing, scuffing and some very light soiling and discoloration. Because of all of the cut out bits the book squishes in an odd way. Seller Inventory # mon0000017012
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paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Visual Editions, 2010; "First published." stated, no later printings indicated; 139pp. Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy; die-cut text very good throughout; minor wear to edges of wraps. A very presentable copy of Foer's increasingly scarce "sculptural" novel, built from Bruno Schulz's Street of Crocodiles. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Seller Inventory # 326388
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good Plus. First printing. A Very Good Plus first printing with minimal shelfwear. Only issued in paperback. 134 pages. 5.25" x 8.75". Jonathan Safran Foer's (1977 ) Tree of Codes (2010) might, on its own, as an object, be regarded as an artistic achievement. But in considering the source material for this die-cut book-written-from-another-book, we are given a thought exercise about what is left of an artist after they pass, how is their work reinterpreted, and what might be intuited about what is omitted? Bruno Schulz (18921942) was a Polish Jewish author who was killed in the Drohobycz Ghetto. Most of his works were lost in the Holocaust, but Foer, citing it as his favorite book, used one of the surviving novels, The Street of Crocodiles, as the framework from which Tree of Codes was literally carved. The result is a poetic achievement of book craftsmanship, which we are pleased to offer here. . Seller Inventory # 53
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