The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus

The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus

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The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus

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

`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
Condition Unavailable
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.