Float by Anne Carson (6 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Anne Carson dazzles us, book after book, with her inventiveness, her ranging imagination, and the way her work utterly changes our perspectives. With Float, she goes further still: exploring myth and memory, beauty and loss, all the while playing with - and pushing - the limits of language and form. Within this beautifully designed box, there are twelve individual booklets that can be read in any order: conjuring a mix of voices, time periods and structures to explore what makes people, memories, and stories 'maddeningly attractive' when observed in liminal space. One can begin with Carson puzzling through Proust on a frozen Icelandic plain, in the art-saturated enclaves of downtown New York City, or atop Mount Olympus as Zeus ponders his afterlife. There is a three-woman chorus of Gertrude Steins embodying an essay about 'falling', and an investigation of monogamy and marriage as Carson anticipates the perfect egg her husband is cooking for breakfast. Exquisite, heartbreaking, disarmingly funny, Float illuminates the uncanny magic that comes with letting go of boundaries. It is Carson's most intellectually electrifying and emotionally engaging book to date.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine in a fine plastic slipcase.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First UK edition. 22 chapbooks in a clear slipcase. NF. All the chapbooks are present in excellent condition. No writing or markings of any kind. The slipcase is also in excellent condition. Ships securely in a box.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine first printing of an increasingly scarce title and a prime example of ergodic literature. This copy is flawless, still in the publisher shrink with publisher price sticker, opened only to check the printing notation on the first chapbook to confirm first edition status. This book is otherwise unread and untouched. Twenty-two chapbooks of various lengths housed in a stiff acetate slip-case. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box.

Hardcover. Condition: New. New Mint, Srink wrapped, Ships from Berlin Bookshop Bxn75.