Pockets
Stuart Ross
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Ebook in EPUB format. Available for immediate download after we receive your order
Publisher:
ECW Press
ECW Press
DRM:
Watermark
Watermark
Publication Year:
2017
2017
ISBN-13:
9781773050898
Description:
<p><b>Brilliant experimental, surrealist fiction from the award-winning author of <i>Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew</i></b></p>
<p>A wonderful dream and a horrific nightmare, a fuzzy consciousness of pain and family, <i>Pockets</i> is a novel of fragments — both literally and figuratively. In a series of prose-poem chapters, the nameless narrator, in a largely Jewish 1960s suburb in the northern reaches of Toronto, repeatedly enters the world, as if for the first time. His landscape is one of trilobite fossils, bicycles with banana seats, Red Skelton, and overwhelming loss. Among shadows that both comfort and threaten, a brother who drifts through the sky, he finds his narrative full of pockets of emptiness he can’t help but try to fill.</p>
<p>A heartbreakingly personal and profound work, <i>Pockets</i> redefines the novel, delivering infinite scope in something diminutive, pocket-sized. Every reading brings new revelations.</p>
<p>A wonderful dream and a horrific nightmare, a fuzzy consciousness of pain and family, <i>Pockets</i> is a novel of fragments — both literally and figuratively. In a series of prose-poem chapters, the nameless narrator, in a largely Jewish 1960s suburb in the northern reaches of Toronto, repeatedly enters the world, as if for the first time. His landscape is one of trilobite fossils, bicycles with banana seats, Red Skelton, and overwhelming loss. Among shadows that both comfort and threaten, a brother who drifts through the sky, he finds his narrative full of pockets of emptiness he can’t help but try to fill.</p>
<p>A heartbreakingly personal and profound work, <i>Pockets</i> redefines the novel, delivering infinite scope in something diminutive, pocket-sized. Every reading brings new revelations.</p>