Tree of Codes

Foer, Jonathan Safran

ISBN 10: 0956569218 / ISBN 13: 9780956569219

Published by Visual Editions, London, 2010

A Very Good softcover, 285 pages with just faint signs of use including a crease to upper corner page 76 which does not affect text or die-cutting. Seller Inventory # 3161

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.

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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Tree of Codes
Publisher: Visual Editions, London
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 2nd printing.