The Age of Wire and String: Stories

Marcus, Ben

ISBN 10: 0679426604 / ISBN 13: 9780679426608

Published by Knopf, 1995

About this Item

signed by Ben Marcus; signature obtained in person by bookseller; the phenomena of everyday life.

Seller Inventory # 2915

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Age of Wire and String: Stories
• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679426604
• ISBN 13: 9780679426608
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • fiction

About this title

Synopsis

A debut collection of short stories by the editor of Conjunctions draws on the familiar everyday world of food, the weather, shelter, and more, all radically altered in terms of their relationship to one another and the reader. A first collection.

Review

‘Transfixing... an extraordinary debut... The Age of Wire and String, a treasury of interconnected fables of violence and hope, stands out as an exhilarating work of literature. Multiple readings are rewarding.’
Steven Poole, TLS

‘Frequently touching and funny, plenty of madness, magic and gods... a cross between a scientific manual, Monty Python and a kind of Bible, with a surreal and opaque logic of its own.’
Christina Patterson, Observer

‘The Age of Wire and String evades classification, persisting in your mind because of its psychotically ardent prose... It will find its fans among those people who relish prose that mimics dream, who love it when words are used as they once were, as incantations, as spells to summon up the contorted beings of the imagination.’
Matthew De Abaitua, The Idler

‘The most audacious literary debut in decades’
Robert Coover