Ad Parnassum - Softcover

Weber, Nancy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0990433129 ISBN 13: 9780990433125

Publisher: Underground Voices, 2014

"Ad Parnassum" is Nancy Weber's offbeat and eclectic novella, written in 1973. Included are two additional short stories: "Might Have Been" and "A Name For It." REVIEWS "The writing in all three works is rich with action and conflict, and it encourages readers to burrow deeper into the hidden layers of meaning." - Publisher's Weekly "A swift, witty metafiction, Parnassus is life as seen through a kaleidoscope, offering a fresh take on a bright, ever-changing scene." - Kit Reed In Ad Parnassum, Nancy Weber has created a novella that is, on the one hand, entirely ingenious, fascinating and clever and, on the other, profoundly moving. More, she has introduced us to a heroine so singular and compelling that we can only hope that Weber will share her with us again, and soon. How Weber accomplishes this feat is as unique as her heroine. "Ad Parnassum's" extraordinary nonlinear structure (and I will not spoil the surprise by saying more) leads us through a warren of love and sex that are totally separated, sex and love that are complicatedly merged, philosophy where even Eve, Persephone and pomegranates play a role and, yes, cuisine! Weber grasps us, plunks us down in the midst of the early seventies - the age of awakening to free love, restless longing to achieve or at least identify and pursue happiness - and takes us on our heroine's delightful, laugh-out-loud journey where there is no fact, conclusion or conviction that cannot be questioned, controverted or, at the least, finessed. A parting but essential note - try the recipes; they are as delectable as this novella. - Sherri Felt Dratfield "Weber is the pointillist of prose, crafting prismatic fragments of images that resonate in one's soul." - Rose Levy Beranbaum, author of "The Baking Bible." "Nancy Weber excels at whatever she puts her pen to. In her rediscovered work, "Ad Parnassum," dating from 1973, she invented an entirely new style of writing. The reader has to work at unraveling clues, but it's worth i

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About the Author:

Nancy Weber s diverse body of fiction includes "The Playgroup", a psychological suspense novel with a medical twist; the slipstream novel "Brokenhearted"; the metafiction novella "Ad Parnassum"; the young adult mini-series Two Turtledoves; and eight romances written under her pseudonym, Jennifer Rose. Her nonfiction book "The""Life Swap", published in the seventies, recounts her experience exchanging lives trading habits and jobs and even lovers with a stranger. Weber has written for the stage as well, adapting the lyrics for the American version of composer Alexander Zhurbin s "Seagull: The Musical." Weber earned a toque blanche at the French Culinary Institute and ran a catering business, Between Books She Cooks, for a decade. She plays chess, badly, and drinks Irish whiskey.

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