Dahlia's iris : secret autobiography and fiction / Leslie Scalapino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scalapino, Leslie, author.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Detective and mystery stories.

Murder victims' families--Fiction.

Murder victims' families.

Foreign workers.

San Francisco (Calif.)--Fiction.

San Francisco (Calif.).

Boys--Crimes against--Fiction.

Boys.

Foreign workers--Fiction.

Widows--Fiction.

Widows.

Genre:

Fiction.

Mystery fiction.

Science fiction.

Mystery and detective fiction -- United States.

Science fiction -- United States.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

213 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Normal ; Tallahassee : FC2, 2003.

Summary:

"Is it a detective novel? A dream? A political statement? A spiritual meditation? And which events form its story? And what of the boxes? In Dahlia's Iris: Secret Autobiography and Fiction, three detectives investigate the grisly deaths of Dahlia Winter's husband and two Hispanic boys, fallen from buildings, in a future-time San Francisco. Contiunally recalling the plots of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Terminator 2, and Blade Runner, the novel colonizes American popular culture from within, as though no story, regardless of how alien, were proof against its own uncontainable life.

Based on a conception of the Tibetan written form of the Secret Autobiography, Dahlia's Iris creates a time-space in which sensation, action, thought, and memory cohabit the reader's present, revealing inner and outer to be the other's source and inversion. What results is a work of fiction unlike any that has existed before."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

Indigo at Night

Dahlia

Dahlia's Iris

Flotillas

Liquid Red of Swallow's Mouth

The Champ

Relation of Motion

Sauntering

Elude

The Spine's Dream

The Wave

Slaves' Outside Evening or Evening, Pal Mal Comic

Can Only Be Seen

The Driver

An Event at Night

Compressed Flesh, Pal Mal Comic

Pal Mal Comic, Or

The Terminator

Converted From Language

Amber Turtles

Seeing the Dead and They Don't Know They're Dead

Bright Dark, Pal Mal Comic

Treasure Discoverer

Flower, Pal Mal Comic Book

The Wedge

Cloe's Turtle

Air Pal Mal (The Frame)

Wild Ice

Time Flattened

As Joy Spatial-Crowd-Only and That Exists 'As' One's Inner Life Also

Melinka's Owl

No Lost Actions

No Lost Actions, Pal Mal

The Footnotes

Andrew.

Notes:

A novel.

Published in Normal, Illinois, and Tallahassee, Florida.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Scalapino, Leslie. Dahlia's iris.

ISBN:

1573661112

9781573661119

OCLC:

52895621

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