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Description for La Medusa
Paperback. A polyphonic novel of post-conceptual consciousness. Num Pages: 616 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 771.
La Medusa is a polyphonic novel of post-conceptual consciousness. At the heart of the whole floats Medusa, an androgynous central awareness that anchors the novel throughout. ""La Medusa"" is at once the city of Los Angeles, with its snaking freeways and serpentine shifts between reality and illusion, and a brain - a modern mind that is both expansive and penetrating in its obsessions and perceptions.Vanessa Place's characters - a trucker and his wife, a nine-year-old saxophonist, an ice cream vendor, a sex worker, and a corpse, among others - are borderless selves in a borderless city, a city impossible to ... Read more
La Medusa is a polyphonic novel of post-conceptual consciousness. At the heart of the whole floats Medusa, an androgynous central awareness that anchors the novel throughout. ""La Medusa"" is at once the city of Los Angeles, with its snaking freeways and serpentine shifts between reality and illusion, and a brain - a modern mind that is both expansive and penetrating in its obsessions and perceptions.Vanessa Place's characters - a trucker and his wife, a nine-year-old saxophonist, an ice cream vendor, a sex worker, and a corpse, among others - are borderless selves in a borderless city, a city impossible to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
616
Place of Publication
Normal, United States
ISBN
9781573661454
SKU
V9781573661454
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Vanessa Place
Vanessa Place is a writer and lawyer, and co-director of Les Figues Press.
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