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So many Olympic exertions / Anelise Chen.
Van Pelt Library PS3603.H4465 S66 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chen, Anelise, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Suicide--Fiction.
- Suicide.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--21st century.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Experimental fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 232 pages ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Los Angeles, CA] : Kaya Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- Blending elements of memoir and sports writing, Anelise Chen's debut novel is an experimental work that perhaps most resembles what the ancient Greeks called hyponemata, or "notes to the self," in the form of observations, reminders and self-exhortations. Taken together, these notes constitute a personal handbook on "how to live"--or perhaps more urgently "why to live," a question the narrator, graduate student Athena Chen, desperately needs answering. When Chen hears news that her brilliant friend from college has committed suicide, she is thrown into a fugue of fear and doubt. Through anecdotes and close readings of moments in the sometimes harrowing world of sports, the novel questions the validity of our current narratives of success.
- Notes:
- Place of publication from publisher's website.
- ISBN:
- 9781885030351
- 1885030355
- OCLC:
- 992082265
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