John the posthumous
John the Posthumous exists in between fiction and poetry, elegy and history: a kind of novella in objects, it is an anatomy of marriage and adultery, an interlocking set of fictional histories, and the staccato telling of a murder, perhaps two murders. Knives, old iron gates, antique houses in flames; Biblical citations, blood and a history of the American bed: the unsettling, half-perceived images, and their precise but alien manipulation by a master of the language will stay with readers. Its…
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- Full title :John the posthumous / Jason Schwartz.
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John the Posthumous exists in between fiction and poetry, elegy and history: a kind of novella in objects, it is an anatomy of marriage and adultery, an interlocking set of fictional histories, and the staccato telling of a murder, perhaps two murders. Knives, old iron gates, antique houses in flames; Biblical citations, blood and a history of the American bed: the unsettling, half-perceived images, and their precise but alien manipulation by a master of the language will stay with readers. Its themes are familiar - violence, betrayal, failure - its depiction of these utterly original and hauntingly beautiful.
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- Publication Date:©2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):OR Books
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:136 pages ; : 18 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781939293213, 1939293219
- oclc:ocn859335613
- LC Classification:PS3569.C56579
Table of Contents
Hornbook -- Housepost, male figure -- Adulterium.
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