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Shining at the bottom of the sea / Stephen Marche.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.4.M345 S55 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marche, Stephen.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 254 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Riverhead Books, 2007.
- Summary:
- In his latest novel, critically acclaimed writer Marche creates the entire culture of a place called Sanjania--its national symbols, political movements, and its rich literary history. The result is a vibrant evocation of a country, from the birth pangs of a nation all the way to the present.
- Contents:
- The Pamphlets and Early Fictioneers
- / F. R. Fisher The Destruction of Marlyebone, the Private King 37
- / Camden Mahone Pigeon Blackhat 40
- / Julian Back Professor Saintfrancis and the Diamants of the End of the World 72
- / Arcadio Cole Von Lettow-Vorbeck, Africa's White Lion 82
- / George Jankin Lee An Interlude at the Opera 88
- Upheavals and Independence
- / Blessed Shirley Sufferance Pow 97
- / Elizabeth Rushton Two Stories About the Abandon Tree 111
- / Augustus P. Jenkins The Master's Dog 113
- / Cornelia Tristanos The Christbird 128
- / Ira Rushton Ultimate Testament 133
- / Leonard King To Be Read at the Hour of Independence 136
- / Morley Straights An Old Man Mourns for His Blind Daughter 139
- / Caesar Hill Flotsam and Jetsam 144
- Exile and Return
- / Charity Gurton Men 155
- / Trinity Hopps Under the Skin 159
- / Leonard King Histories of Aenea by Various Things 166
- / Cato Dekkerman A Wedding in Restitution 178
- / Marcel Henri The Man Friday's Review of Robinson Crusoe 198
- / Octavia Kitteredge-Mann The End of the Beach 202
- Criticism
- / Ernest Hemingway Letter to John Dos Passos 213
- / Sherlock Cole On the Motif of the Shipwreck as History 214
- / Blessed Shirley Why It Is Imperative to Pay Close Attention to Detail 219
- / Richard Williams Comparative Biographies of Elizabeth and Ira Rushton 221
- / Arcadio Skelton A Note on a Code in Morley Straights 227
- / Octavia Dickens Language in Charity Gurton's Men and Other Stories 231
- Two Reviews of A Wedding in Restitution 235
- An Interview with Octavia Kitteredge-Mann 239.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781594489419
- 1594489416
- OCLC:
- 85783360
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