IN & OZ: A Novel - Brossura

Tomasula, Steve

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0226807444 ISBN 13: 9780226807447

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2012

Riassunto

Steve Tomasula is a novelist like no other; his experiments in narrative and design have won him a loyal following. Exemplifying Tomasula’s style, IN & OZ is a heady, avant-garde book, rooted in convincing characters even as it simultaneously subverts the genre of novel and moves it forward.

IN & OZ is a novel of art, love, and auto mechanics. The story follows five different characters—an auto designer, photographer, musical composer, poet/sculptor, and mechanic—who live in two very different places: IN, a back-alley here and now; and OZ, which reflects the desire for somewhere better. The men and women who populate Tomasula’s landscape desperately hope to fill a void in their lives through a variety of media: music, language, dirt, light, and automobiles. As the plot moves forward, the story of the residents of INand that of their counterparts in OZconverge. A fanciful allegory that tackles class relations, art, commerce, and language, IN & OZ is a tale of the human condition that is as visually compelling as it is moving.

A novel not only for fiction lovers, but also for artists of all stripes, IN & OZ creates a fantasy that illumines our own world as it lucidly builds its own.

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L'autore:

Steve Tomasula is the author of a number of novels, including The Book of Portraiture andVAS: An Opera in Flatland, also published by the University of Chicago Press. His new-media novelTOC received the Mary Shelly Award for Excellence in Fiction, and the Gold Medal, Best Book of the Year, in the eLit Awards. He teaches fiction writing and twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature at the University of Notre Dame. A Howard Fellow, he lives in Chicago, where he is completing a novel about extinction.

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Su questa edizione

• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0226807444
• ISBN 13: 9780226807447
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 152