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IN & OZ
Steve Tomasula
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Description for IN & OZ
Paperback. A novel of art, love, and auto mechanics. It follows five different characters - an auto designer, photographer, musical composer, poet/sculptor, and mechanic - who live in two very different places: IN, a back-alley here and now; and OZ, which reflects the desire for somewhere better. Num Pages: 152 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 118 x 12. Weight in Grams: 182.
Steve Tomasula is a novelist like no other; his experiments in narrative and design have won him a loyal following. Exemplifying Tomasula's style, "IN & OZ" is a heady, avant-garde book, rooted in convincing characters even as it simultaneously subverts the genre of the novel and moves it forward. "IN & OZ" is a novel of art, love, and auto mechanics. The story follows five different characters - an auto designer, photographer, musical composer, poet/sculptor, and mechanic - who live in two very different places: IN, a back-alley here and now; and OZ, which reflects the desire for somewhere better. ... Read more
Steve Tomasula is a novelist like no other; his experiments in narrative and design have won him a loyal following. Exemplifying Tomasula's style, "IN & OZ" is a heady, avant-garde book, rooted in convincing characters even as it simultaneously subverts the genre of the novel and moves it forward. "IN & OZ" is a novel of art, love, and auto mechanics. The story follows five different characters - an auto designer, photographer, musical composer, poet/sculptor, and mechanic - who live in two very different places: IN, a back-alley here and now; and OZ, which reflects the desire for somewhere better. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226807447
SKU
V9780226807447
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About Steve Tomasula
Steve Tomasula is the author of a number of novels, including The Book of Portraiture and VAS: An Opera in Flatland, also published by the University of Chicago Press. He teaches fiction writing and twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature at the University of Notre Dame. A Howard Fellow, he lives in Chicago, where he is completing a novel about extinction.
Reviews for IN & OZ
"Not very far in the future, things are a lot like now only more so.... The walls of class do not fall, though, in this eccentric but worthy descendant of Huxley's fatally bittersweet Brave New World." (Booklist) "The author's signature intelligence, at once quirky, mannered, uncanny, removed, and satiric, continues to manifest itself in spades.... IN & OZ bears a ... Read more