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Item Details
| Title:
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CODA
A NOVEL |
| By: |
Rene Belletto, Alyson Waters (Trans), Stacey Levine |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£10.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0803224419 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780803224414 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 2011 |
| Series: |
French Voices |
| Pages: |
88 |
| Description: |
A thrilling experimental novel that explores life, death, immortality, and love through the experience of one man. |
| Synopsis: |
"It is to me that we owe our immortality, and this is the story that proves it beyond all doubt." With this sentence Rene Belletto begins a novel that compresses every genre he has worked in-thriller, science fiction, experimental literature, horror-into one breathless narrative in which what is at stake is nothing less than our own immortality. Playing with the expectations of the reader, Belletto constructs a logical puzzle that defies logic, much like the "almost-perpetual motion machine" invented by the narrator of this novel and his father. What sets the story in (perpetual) motion is a package of frozen seafood. This lowly mechanism triggers a series of picaresque and otherworldly events, from the storyteller's meeting with Fate disguised as a beautiful woman, to the kidnapping of his daughter, to his amorous reunion with the younger half-sister of a high school friend, to the elimination of death from the world. It's a funny business, but Belletto's playful and falsely transparent language opens the book to such serious matters as explorations of death, immortality, love, and the innocence of children. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Bison Books |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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