Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles - Hardcover

Currie, Ron, Jr.

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9780670025343: Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles

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ISBN 10: 0670025348 ISBN 13: 9780670025343

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2013

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HardCover. Pub Date :2013-02-07 Pages: 340 Language: English Publisher: Viking Adult A bold. arresting new work of fiction from the acclaimed author of Everything Matters! In this tour de force of imagination. Ron Currie asks why literal veracity means more to us than deeper truths. creating yet again a genre-bending novel that will at once dazzle. move. and provoke.The protagonist of Ron Currie. Jr. 's new novel has a problem - or rather. several of them . He's a writer whose latest book was destroyed in a fire. He's mourning the death of his father. and has been in love with the same woman since grade school. a woman whose beauty and allure is matched only by her talent for eluding him. Worst of all. he's not even his own man. but rather an amalgam of fact and fiction from Ron Currie's own life. When Currie the character exiles himself to a small Caribbean island to write ...

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Praise for FLIMSY LITTLE PLASTIC MIRACLES
Sharp and sarcastic, Currie s dramatic story keeps you tethered in place it s a truly genuine love story wrapped in a series of comically improbable events. "thedailybeast.com"
A powerful, brilliant, compelling novel about love, writing, fame, fiction and shame that is emotionally effective and intellectually engaging, coming as close to anything I ve read, to meeting David Foster Wallace s call for fiction that makes the head beat like the heart. "bookslut.com"
So blisteringly funny that I laughed as I hadn t laughed in years: we re talking demonic, unstoppable, don t sit next to that guy howls. "The Washington Post"
Resounds with humor and insight into love, loss, and reality An astonishing feat of innovation with surprises on nearly every page, Currie s entrancing novel marks the work of a scathingly comic virtuoso. "ALA Booklist"
A postmodern love story, self-consciously playful things get both crazy and interesting moving and hilarious. "Kirkus Reviews"
A metafictional tangle of debauchery and technological anxiety Told in a bouncy, pinball style, this darkly droll novel is never boring. "Publishers Weekly"
Currie stays true to his gutsy, thoughtful, and unconventional self in this brilliant meditation on life, death, truth, and imperfection. "Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles" is flimsy like a brick sh*thouse. Ron Currie, Jr. is a fearless and inspired writer at the top of his game. Read him. Jonathan Evison, author of "The Revised" "Fundamentals of Caregiving" and "West of Here"
Both a brilliantly constructed inquiry into the nature of reality and a soulful ode to the free fall of obsessive love. These two spines interweave ever more tightly till they fuse into a dazzling question mark with no easy answers. This is a beautiful book. Kate Christensen, author of "The Astral" and "The Great Man""

Praise for FLIMSY LITTLE PLASTIC MIRACLES
"Currie's most grounded work yet. . . [his] gorgeously questioning prose explores the deeper meaning things gain after they are gone."
--The New Yorker
"Sharp and sarcastic, Currie's dramatic story keeps you tethered in place...it's a truly genuine love story wrapped in a series of comically improbable events." --thedailybeast.com
"A powerful, brilliant, compelling novel about love, writing, fame, fiction and shame that is emotionally effective and intellectually engaging, coming as close to anything I've read, to meeting David Foster Wallace's call for fiction that makes the head beat like the heart." --bookslut.com
"So blisteringly funny that I laughed as I hadn't laughed in years: we're talking demonic, unstoppable, don't sit next to that guy howls." --The Washington Post
"Resounds with humor and insight into love, loss, and reality...An astonishing feat of innovation with surprises on nearly every page, Currie's entrancing novel marks the work of a scathingly comic virtuoso." --ALA Booklist
"A postmodern love story, self-consciously playful...things get both crazy and interesting...moving and hilarious." --Kirkus Reviews
"A metafictional tangle of debauchery and technological anxiety...Told in a bouncy, pinball style, this darkly droll novel is never boring." --Publishers Weekly
"Currie stays true to his gutsy, thoughtful, and unconventional self in this brilliant meditation on life, death, truth, and imperfection. Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles is flimsy like a brick sh*thouse. Ron Currie, Jr. is a fearless and inspired writer at the top of his game. Read him." --Jonathan Evison, author of The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving and West of Here
"Both a brilliantly constructed inquiry into the nature of reality and a soulful ode to the free fall of obsessive love. These two spines interweave ever more tightly till they fuse into a dazzling question mark with no easy answers. This is a beautiful book." --Kate Christensen, author of The Astral and The Great Man

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About the Author:

Ron Currie, Jr., is the winner of the 2009 Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as the New York Public Library Young Lion’s Award for his acclaimed debut, God Is Dead. His 2009 novel, Everything Matters!, was an Indie Next Pick and one of Amazon’s 100 Top Books of 2009 and was named by the Los Angeles Times as among the Best Fiction of 2009. He lives in Waterville, Maine.

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