Shadowlife: Novel (New Directions Paperbook; 705) - Softcover

Grzimek, Martin; Mitchell, Breon

9780811211529: Shadowlife: Novel (New Directions Paperbook; 705)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811211525 ISBN 13: 9780811211529

Publisher: New Directions, 1991

Set in a futuristic society, this story relates the horror of living in a world where individuality, true feelings, and authentic experiences do not exist

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About the Author:

BREON MITCHELL is Professor of Germanic Studies and Comparative Literature at Indiana University, where he is also Director of the Lilly Library. A Rhodes Scholar, he received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Oxford University. His areas of specialization include literary translation, Anglo-German literary relations, literature and the visual arts, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, and Samuel Beckett.

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A detective novel which offers a gripping overview of the purpose and function of poetic fiction in the twenty-first century.

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