The Currency of Paper

✍ Scribed by Kovacs, Alex

• Book ID: 110481962
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 456 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781564788573

✦ Synopsis

Maximilian Sacheverell Hollingsworth is a counterfeiter, sculptor, filmmaker, sound artist, mystic, and terminal recluse, and over the course of fifty years, making use of a vast stockpile of illegitimate currency, he funds a great range of secret, large-scale art projects throughout London--from explorations of the far reaches of the imagination to more civic-minded schemes of an equally radical nature. At once a strikingly original satire of the ways in which art and currency conspire to favor certain voices and forms over others, and a story of surreal anti-capitalist machinations reminiscent of the works of B. S. Johnson and Georges Perec, The Currency of Paper announces the arrival of a great new voice in contemporary fiction.