Magnetic Field (s)

✍ Scribed by Loewinsohn, Ron

• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 146 KB
• Edition: Bantam Windstone trade edition
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Organised around the idea that "you can't know what a magnetic field is like unless you're inside of it," Ron Loewinsohn's first novel opens from the disturbing perspective of a burglar in the midst of a robbery, and travels through the thoughts and experiences (both real and imaginary) of a group of characters whose lives are connected both coincidentally and intimately. All of the characters have a common desire to imagine and invent rather horrifying stories about the lives of people around them. As the novel develops, certain phrasings and images recur improbably, drawing the reader into a subtle linguistic game that calls into question the nature of authorship, the ways we inhabit and invade each other's lives, and the shape of fiction itself.

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