TheMystery.doc / Matthew McIntosh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McIntosh, Matthew, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authorship--Fiction.

Authorship.

American Dream.

Memory--Fiction.

Memory.

American Dream--Fiction.

FICTION / Literary.

Local Subjects:

FICTION / Literary.

Genre:

Fiction.

Experimental fiction.

Physical Description:

1660 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition, first edition.

Other Title:

Mystery.doc

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Grove Press, 2017.

Summary:

Rooted in the western United States in the decade post-9/11, theMystery.doc follows a young writer and his wife as he attempts to write his second book, a national epic he hopes will last forever, and as he searches for a form that will express the world as it has become, revealing the interconnectedness of all our lives. Pop-up ads, internet search results, spam, lines of code, frames of film and television mix with canonical works of literature, alchemical manuscripts, transcripts of personal conversations, and the story of a man who wakes up one morning not knowing who he is, a blank document called themystery.doc newly appeared on his computer. Part love story, part prose poem, part documentary, part existential whodunit, part future-fiction, part Bildungsroman, part memoir, theMystery.doc is about the quest to find something lasting in a world where everything is in danger of slipping away. Love, loss, birth, death, technology, terrorism and the American Dream come together to form a great symphonic work that dazzles in both its structure and in its deep emotional resonance.

ISBN:

9780802124913

0802124917

OCLC:

1004525999

Publisher Number:

99974380774