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Genoa
β Scribed by Paul Metcalf
- Publisher
- Coffee House Press
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 201 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1566894085
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"[Genoa] invites us to pass our minds down a new but ancient track, to become, ourselves, both fact and fiction, and to discover something true about the geography of time."--William Gass, The New York Times
"Genoa is a spectacular confrontation with Melville's work, the journals of Columbus and molecular biology--all folded into a hallucinatory narrative about two brothers and their different paths through the American century."--Publishers Weekly
"Much like his great-grandfather, Herman Melville, Paul Metcalf brings an extraordinary diversity of materials into the complex patterns of analogy and metaphor, to affect a common term altogether brilliant in its imagination."--Robert Creeley
"A unique work of historical and literary imagination, eloquent and powerful. I know of nothing like it."--Howard Zinn
First published in 1965, Genoa is Paul Metcalf's purging of the burden of his relationship...
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