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Self-titled

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Informationen zum Autor Geoffrey Brown is the author of Notice (Gutter Press! 1999). In 2003 'Listen!' an excerpt from this novel! was shortlisted for the Journey Prize. He is also a photographer whose work has appeared in Vice and on the cbcradio3.com website. His photography reviews have appeared in Flash Art. Klappentext Fiction. In SELF-TITLED! Geoffrey Brown stares into a mirror and writes what he sees! what he thinks! what he feels.The result is a self-portrait that's at once comic and psychotic! a complex consciousness captured in crystalline prose. Memories! manias! miasmas - Brown morphs the machinery of his mind into an utterly original entity! equal parts diary! criminal confession! sex manual and mash note! as he contemplates a breakup. SELF-TITLED is a singular achievement with universal appeal: who hasn't squinted into a mirror and said! "What the hell is happening here?" If Gertrude Stein's autobiography was Everybody's Autobiography! then Brown's self-portrait is everybody's self-portrait. Zusammenfassung Can a breakup break you apart? The author stares into a mirror and writes what he sees, what he thinks, what he feels. The result? A self-portrait that's at once comic and psychotic, a complex consciousness captured in crystalline prose.

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Authors Geoffrey Brown
Publisher Northwestern University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 04.10.2004
 
EAN 9781552451441
ISBN 978-1-55245-144-1
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature

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