The Age of Wire and String

Ben Marcus

ISBN 10: 1628975717 / ISBN 13: 9781628975710

Published by Dalkey Archive Press, 2024

About this Item

Seller Inventory # LU-9781628975710

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Age of Wire and String
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1628975717
• ISBN 13: 9781628975710
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 13.97W x 1.78H x 21.59D centimeters 13.97 centimeters width by 1.78 centimeters height by 21.59 centimeters depth
• Weight: 200 grams

About this title

Synopsis

In The Age of Wire and String, hailed by Robert Coover as "the most audacious literary debut in decades," Ben Marcus weilds together a new reality from the scrapheap of the past.

Dogs, birds, horses, automobiles, and the weather are some of the recycled elements in Marcus's first collection—part fiction, part handbook—as familiar objects take on markedly unfamiliar meanings. Gradually, this makeshift world, in its defiance of the laws of physics and language, finds a foundation in its own implausibility, as Marcus produces new feelings and sensations—both comic and disturbing—in the definitive guide to an unpredictable yet exhilarating plane of existence.

About the Author

Ben Marcus was born in Chicago in 1967. The son of a mathematician and a literary scholar, he was raised in the Midwest, Austin, London, Aarhus, and New York. He holds degrees from New York University and Brown University, and has taught at schools in Texas, Virginia, New York, and Rhode Island. In addition to The Age of Wire and String, he is also the author of Notable American Women, Leaving the Sea, New American Stories, and Notes from the Fog.