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Paper Conspiracies
Susan Daitch
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Description for Paper Conspiracies
Paperback. The keys to a historic trap are discovered in a cache of forgeries and crumbling film stock. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 428.
One of the most sensational incidents in the history of France, the Dreyfus Affair was a landmark federal case involving treason and antisemitism. A controversial documentary about the trial by pioneering filmmaker Georges Melies caused riots when it was shown in 1899, and was banned from any screening in France for the next three quarters of a century. Who engineered Dreyfus's conviction? Was the man who played him in the film actually murdered by a mob of enraged moviegoers? And why is Jack Kews, a shadowy 20th-century Zola in New York City, so determined to find out? A ... Read more
One of the most sensational incidents in the history of France, the Dreyfus Affair was a landmark federal case involving treason and antisemitism. A controversial documentary about the trial by pioneering filmmaker Georges Melies caused riots when it was shown in 1899, and was banned from any screening in France for the next three quarters of a century. Who engineered Dreyfus's conviction? Was the man who played him in the film actually murdered by a mob of enraged moviegoers? And why is Jack Kews, a shadowy 20th-century Zola in New York City, so determined to find out? A ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Monroe, OR, United States
ISBN
9780872865143
SKU
V9780872865143
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99-15
About Susan Daitch
Susan Daitch is the author of two novels, L.C. (Lannan Foundation Selection and NEA Heritage Award), The Colorist, and a collection of short stories, Storytown. Her work has appeared in Tinhouse, Conjunctions, Guernica, Bomb, Ploughshares, failbetter.com, McSweeney's The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Fiction VLS, The Brooklyn Rail. Her work was featured in ... Read more
Reviews for Paper Conspiracies
"In 1993, Susan Daitch was showcased in the Review of Contemporary Fiction alongside David Foster Wallace and William T. Vollmann. Her first novel, L.C., is an unheralded masterpiece, but due to its politics (and the gendered world of literary criticism) it never achieved the critical or commercial success of her peers Wallace and Vollmann. Nonetheless, for many readers the arrival ... Read more