Impossible Views of the World
Language: English
Published by Thorndike Press Large Print, 2017
- Hardcover
- Used
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- Title
- Impossible Views of the World
- Author
- Ives, Lucy
- Publisher
- Thorndike Press Large Print
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 143284430X
- ISBN 13
- 9781432844301
- Item weight
- 20 ounces
- Dimensions
- 8x5x1
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Review
"This book was written by a rampaging, mirthful genius. It stands before me like a runestone, magical, mysterious--an esoteric juggernaut masquerading as a 'debut novel.' During the days I spent reading it, I said goodbye to all else." -- Elizabeth McKenzie, author of The Portable Veblen
"I first knew Lucy Ives's work as a poet, and to have her prose is a gift, too. The detailed novel she's built with such authenticity, wit, and feeling is remarkable for its vitality, insights, and lyrical view of a changing world." -- Hilton Als, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of White Girls
"This book was written by a rampaging, mirthful genius. It stands before me like a runestone, magical, mysterious--an esoteric juggernaut masquerading as a 'debut novel.' During the days I spent reading it, I said goodbye to all else." -- Elizabeth McKenzie, author of The Portable Veblen
"There are abundant pleasures to be found in Lucy Ives's debut novel about art curation, corporate control, and utopia (among many other subjects and digressions), but the best is the poetic, elegant intelligence of its narration, vocalized by Stella Krakus, whose every sentence wryly climbs from the ridiculous to the sublime." -- Teddy Wayne, author of Loner and The Love Song of Jonny Valentine
"Lucy Ives, a deeply smart and painstakingly elegant writer, wins the prize with this intricate, droll, stylish book--at once a mystery novel, a romantic comedy, a tricky essay on aesthetics, an expose of art-world foibles, and a diary of emotional distress. With sharp phrases, uncanny plot-turns, and mise-en-abymes galore, this mesmerizing tale radiates the haute irreality of Last Year at Marienbad and the dreamy claustrophobia of The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, this time for adults only." --Wayne Koestenbaum, author of My 1980s and Other Essays
"An art historical mystery that will interest fans of Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch, with a narrator equal parts intellectual, ironic, and cool...Scintillating...A diversion and a pleasure, this novel leaves you feeling smarter and hipper than you were before." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred) "I first knew Lucy Ives's work as a poet, and to have her prose is a gift, too. The detailed novel she's built with such authenticity, wit, and feeling is remarkable for its vitality, insights, and lyrical view of a changing world." -- Hilton Als, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of White Girls "This book was written by a rampaging, mirthful genius. It stands before me like a runestone, magical, mysterious--an esoteric juggernaut masquerading as a 'debut novel.' During the days I spent reading it, I said goodbye to all else." -- Elizabeth McKenzie, author of The Portable Veblen "There are abundant pleasures to be found in Lucy Ives's debut novel about art curation, corporate control, and utopia (among many other subjects and digressions), but the best is the poetic, elegant intelligence of its narration, vocalized by Stella Krakus, whose every sentence wryly climbs from the ridiculous to the sublime." -- Teddy Wayne, author of Loner and The Love Song of Jonny Valentine "Lucy Ives, a deeply smart and painstakingly elegant writer, wins the prize with this intricate, droll, stylish book--at once a mystery novel, a romantic comedy, a tricky essay on aesthetics, an expose of art-world foibles, and a diary of emotional distress. With sharp phrases, uncanny plot-turns, and mise-en-abymes galore, this mesmerizing tale radiates the haute irreality of Last Year at Marienbad and the dreamy claustrophobia of The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, this time for adults only." --Wayne Koestenbaum, author of My 1980s and Other Essays
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