Brief lives
by Price, Chris
An eccentric collection of biographical anecdotes and fictional vignettes ... a meditation on mortality and the tasks of recording, recollection and recollection we undertake to stave it off.
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- Full title :Brief lives / Chris Price.
Summary
An eccentric collection of biographical anecdotes and fictional vignettes ... a meditation on mortality and the tasks of recording, recollection and recollection we undertake to stave it off.
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- Publication Date:2006.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Auckland University Press
- Place of Publication:Auckland, N.Z
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2006.
Notes
"An eccentric collection of biographical anecdotes and fictional vignettes ... a meditation on mortality"--Inner fold of cover.
The Physical Object
- Description:158 p. ; : 19 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781869403638 (pbk.), 1869403630 (pbk.)
- oclc:ocm77765282
- LC Classification:PR9639.4.P75
- Dewey Decimal:NZ828.307
Table of Contents
Brief lives. After the party. The age. Altitude sickness. Anne Carson. Anthony. Biographical fallacies. Calm. Collector. On composition. Creation stories. Dionysian stories. Disposable. Dream life. Eve's daughter. The fallen. Family wisdom. Fire and water. Harry Partch. Hildegard of Bingen. Horologist. Jesus of Montparnasse. Lott's mother. Max. The next day. Notebook. Other dictionaries. Pathological anatomy. Petrarch's bones. Prayer wheel. Rehabilitation. The serpent lectures. Singapore. Specimen jar. The unhappiness of holidays. [Untitled]. V. Xylothéque. Zoopraxiscope -- Variable stars.
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