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Synopsis
"Fancy is a superb book, a masterpiece, and even (I think I think) a novel, surely one of the nerviest ever undertaken." --Harry Mathews, author of The Solitary Twin and My Life in CIA ***An elderly shut-in delivers a series of pet-sitting instructions to a young couple who've come to watch over his many, many cats. A story (or series of stories) about the ways that methodical, abstract systems interface with messy, personal obsessions, Fancy is a kissing cousin to the work of both the late Henry James and the early Thomas Bernhard: an object lesson in how our need to make sense of the world winds up devouring it whole.
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About the Author
Jeremy M. Davies was born in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of The Knack of Doing (David R. Godine, 2016), a collection of short fiction, as well as the novel Rose Alley. He is an editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and sits on the advisory board of Dorothy, a Publishing Project. His fiction has appeared in numerous publications, including Harper's Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and The White Review.
Review
"Davies has written a challenging but exceptional aria of a novel. This weird portrait of an unreliable and eloquent narrator could become a cult classic." - Publishers Weekly, starred review
"An ingenious and witty polyphonic invention." - The Times Literary Supplement
"[A] dark vision of the self fundamentally alone, tying together the planks of its life raft system by system, or as the case may be, cat by cat." - Necessary Fiction
"Fancy is a superb book, a masterpiece, and even (I think I think) a novel, surely one of the nerviest ever undertaken." --Harry Mathews, author of The Solitary Twin and My Life in CIA
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- PublisherEllipsis
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1940400074
- ISBN 13 9781940400075
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages252
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