Snowball, dragonfly, Jew
by Ross, Stuart
Struggling with the sudden, nagging notion that his mother once assassinated a prominent neo-Nazi leader, Ben--a performance artist, about to turn 40--doesn't know where to turn. His parents are both dead and his brother, having previously been institutionalized, is a lousy source of information. In a non-chronological montage of memories, this inventive tale blends suburban realism with out-of-body surrealism as Ben travels back and forth through life events, attempting to put the pieces of th…
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- Full title :Snowball, dragonfly, Jew / Stuart Ross.
Summary
Struggling with the sudden, nagging notion that his mother once assassinated a prominent neo-Nazi leader, Ben--a performance artist, about to turn 40--doesn't know where to turn. His parents are both dead and his brother, having previously been institutionalized, is a lousy source of information. In a non-chronological montage of memories, this inventive tale blends suburban realism with out-of-body surrealism as Ben travels back and forth through life events, attempting to put the pieces of the puzzle together.
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- Publication Date:©2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):ECW Press
- Place of Publication:Toronto
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (178 pages) : : portrait
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781554909209, 1554909201, 9781554909834, 155490983X
- oclc:ocn719387821
- LC Classification:PR9199.3.R5993
- Dewey Decimal:C813/.54
Table of Contents
Front Cover; Copyright; Contents; The Dream; George Chuvalo's Signature; Up Again, Into the Bell Tower; The Plastic Container, Empty; A Guy in a Guy's Arms; The Sacredness of Books, and Also a Big Boy; They Talked About Me; A Bullet in His Spine; The Cancer Came Back, the Very Next Day; Missing Things; Fingerprints; The Many Uses of Yahrzeit Glasses; Thus Do His Eyeballs Rattle; I Get to Touch It; The Visit; The Twelve Rabbis of, Um, of, Uh . . .; Ants with Plans; Journeys Out if the Body; The House on Pannahill, Still Standing There; Dragon's Paradise; Interview with a Hard Hat.
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