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List: A Novel
Matthew Roberson
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Description for List: A Novel
Paperback. Vignettes of a middle-class American family told through lists, each reflecting their obsessions, their complaints, their desires, and their humanity. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308.
In these glimpses of middle America, lists guide the stories - ordering the characters' lives, capturing their obsessions, cataloguing their complaints, accounting for their desires, and serving as prayers toward ways of life that might work.
Here the man, the woman, the boy, and the girl struggle through the home improvement projects, the conflicts at work and school, the job loss, the illesses, and the confrontations with ageing that constitutes their claustrophobic days. Their lives revolve around gadgets, mad cleanliness, bland vans, and deadly entropies that make up the suburban middle class.
The man digression-addled, searches in vain ... Read more
In these glimpses of middle America, lists guide the stories - ordering the characters' lives, capturing their obsessions, cataloguing their complaints, accounting for their desires, and serving as prayers toward ways of life that might work.
Here the man, the woman, the boy, and the girl struggle through the home improvement projects, the conflicts at work and school, the job loss, the illesses, and the confrontations with ageing that constitutes their claustrophobic days. Their lives revolve around gadgets, mad cleanliness, bland vans, and deadly entropies that make up the suburban middle class.
The man digression-addled, searches in vain ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Fiction Collective 2
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Normal, United States
ISBN
9781573661775
SKU
V9781573661775
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
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