The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus

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The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus

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A potential cult classic – the Finnegans Wake of the 1990s.

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The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus

A potential cult classic – the Finnegans Wake of the 1990s. A bulletin from a parallel universe where the relations between words and things are utterly changed. Bewitchingly original, genuinely refreshing, The Age of Wire and String takes all of the linguistic value systems on which our great literature is based, chews them up and spits them out. At once artificial, bizarre and bewildering, this is a Finnegans Wake, a Tristram Shandy for the end of the millennium.

`A rare, genius-struck achievement’
Kirkus

`A thought-provoking, completely singular work’
Los Angeles Times

`Stories so undeniably brilliant, so amazingly fresh, yet so strange and at times so preposterous that most readers will be left speechless’
Dallas Morning News

`The most audacious literary debut in decades’
Robert Coover

`This doesn’t happen very oftenSomeone comes out of left field and blows up literature’
Jeffrey Eugenides

`If you want to find out what you really think, this is the book you should read’
Harry Matthews

`Utterly wonderful, wonderful and beautiful’
Donald Antrim

Ben Marcus was born in 1967, educated at Brown and NYU, is an Associate Editor of the much-admired literary journal Conjunctions and a Pushcart Prize-winner.

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ISBN 13 9780002256506
ISBN 10 0002256509
Title The Age of Wire and String
Author Ben Marcus
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Binding type Hardback
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Year published 1997-11-03
Number of pages 160
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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