Minor Episodes / Major Ruckus - Brossura

Morse, Garry Thomas

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0889226970 ISBN 13: 9780889226975

Casa editrice: Talonbooks Ltd, 2012

Riassunto

In tribute to the surrealist narrative techniques of André Breton and Robert Desnos,Minor Episodes documents the serial adventures of Minor, the ubiquitous "everymogul" who embodies the economic one percent and keeps musically erotic quixotics on tap. Having entered a "rent in time" that gives each chapter an alternate reality, Minor swaggers through an undersea casino, in-flight blockbuster, bawdy Western, and Kafkaesque job hunt, cavorting with billboard queen Bébé Lala and country-music legend Faith Faith, when not dressing down his shifty sidekick, The Concierge, or haunting the intensely disinterested songstress Miss Sharp. However, danger looms in the form of The Stropper, a serial killer fresh out of a shaving promotion, and an enigmatic ginger-beer icon who has retired from a satisfying life of culinary assassinations.

Major Ruckus, a contrapuntal text and parody of the speculative fiction genre, celebrates the stylistic techniques of William S. Burroughs and Robert Anton Wilson, following a frenzied struggle by various parties to obtain an essential time-travel component, a struggle that includes psychic "dicks," universal call-center operators, aboriginal eroticists, lubricant heiresses, rogue advertisement animations, pornography censors, and alien sperm-bank clones, all to the horrified fascination of hapless meta-writer Oober Mann. But ultimately it is Carl Sagan who creates the most confusion, when his prudish doodle of a woman is sent into space aboard theVoyager probe, triggering a plan to "assist" Earth's declining population through extraterrestrials in the guise of census takers.

Minor Episodes and Major Ruckus introduce The Chaos! Quincunx series.

Garry Thomas Morse is a Governor General's Awardnominated poet and fiction writer.

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L'autore

Garry Thomas Morse has had two books of poetry published by LINEbooks, Transversals for Orpheus (2006) andStreams (2007), one collection of fiction, Death in Vancouver (2009), published by Talonbooks, and two books of poetry published by Talonbooks,After Jack (2010) and Discovery Passages (2011), finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry.

Grounded in the work of Arthur Rimbaud, Robert Desnos, Ezra Pound, Jack Spicer, Rainer Maria Rilke and his Native oral traditions, his work has been featured in a variety of publications, includingBranch Magazine, Canadian Literature, The Capilano Review, CV2, dANDelion, filling Station, memewar, Poetry is Dead,subTerrain, The Vancouver Review and West Coast Line. Morse is the recipient of the 2008 City of Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award for Emerging Artist and has twice been selected as runner-up for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry.

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• Editore: Talonbooks Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0889226970
• ISBN 13: 9780889226975
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 275