The bourgeois empire
The bleak landscape of midlife disillusionment and excess permeate this brooding novel about a husband and wife, a teenage girl, and the erotic and mundane details of daily existence. His masculinity charged and marred to a surreal extent, Jules finds vice and love equally helpful in distracting him from the quiet brutality of existence and the inevitability of death. In this world, beauty negotiates truth with pornography and antique revolvers--contrasting the nature of agency and choice with …
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- Full title :The bourgeois empire / Evie Christie.
Summary
The bleak landscape of midlife disillusionment and excess permeate this brooding novel about a husband and wife, a teenage girl, and the erotic and mundane details of daily existence. His masculinity charged and marred to a surreal extent, Jules finds vice and love equally helpful in distracting him from the quiet brutality of existence and the inevitability of death. In this world, beauty negotiates truth with pornography and antique revolvers--contrasting the nature of agency and choice with the magnitude of biology and great, cosmic loneliness. This poet's first novel speaks with burlesque.
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- Publication Date:©2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):ECW Press, MisFit Book
- Place of Publication:Toronto
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (111 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781554909353, 155490935X, 9781554907014, 1554907012
- oclc:ocn679981610
- LC Classification:PR9199.4.C487
- Dewey Decimal:813/.6
Table of Contents
Front Cover; Copyright; Table of Contents; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Chapter 16; Chapter 17; Chapter 18; Chapter 19; Chapter 20; Chapter 21; Chapter 22; Back Cover
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