When X Equals Marylou - Softcover

Dobozy, Tamas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551521334 ISBN 13: 9781551521336

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2003

Synopsis

When X Equals Marylou collects stories about photographers, balding men, ghost chasers, doppelgangers, bibliophiles and dystopian subversives, to name but a few. It’s a mix not only of characters, but of time, and of worlds—moving from Russia to Hungary to Canada, from small towns to big cities to the interior of dreams, from suburbia to welfare offices to interrogations to Alcoholics Anonymous to the Library of Alexandria.

This new collection, evocative of Jonathan Lethem and Paul Auster, is a kind of beguiling miscellany, with each story opening another door, offering another glimpse, all in the hope that readers come away not so much with the experience of having read one book, but many. Threading through these stories, however, is a foreboding sense of the incongruities of life, and our desire to mathematize our responses to the bittersweet world around us.

Praise for When X Equals Marylou:

"I was absolutely floored by the quality of stories such as Tamas Dobozy’s When X Equals Marylou . . . easily equal to any story I’ve read."—PopMatters

"A brilliant collection. His sentences move like snakes—fluid, jabbing, biting."—Michael Turner, author of Hard Core Logo

Tamas Dobozy has lived in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Budapest, and now teaches English at Memorial University in Newfoundland. One of the stories from When X Equals Marylou is to be published in The Chicago Review.

About this title

About the Author:

Tamas Dobozy was born in Nanaimo, BC, and has spent much of his life on the West Coast, in Powell River, Victoria, and Vancouver. He has also lived in Toronto, Montreal, and Budapest, Hungary. His work has been published in journals throughout North America, and in 1995 he won the annual sub-TERRAIN short fiction contest. After receiving his PhD in English from the University of British Columbia, he moved to St. John's, Newfoundland, to teach full time in the Department of Language and Literature at Memorial University. His first book was Doggone. He was nominated for the prestigous Pushcart Prize for his story "Tales of a Hungarian Resistance". When X Equals Marylou was also been shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award.

Review:

"I was absolutely floored by the quality of stories such as Tamas Dobozy's When X Equals Marylou...easily equal to any story I've read."

"A brilliant collection. His sentences move like snakes--fluid, jabbing, biting."

About this edition

• Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1551521334
• ISBN 13: 9781551521336
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176