Henry's Chapel by Graham Guest

Henry's Chapel by Graham Guest

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Henry's Chapel by Graham Guest

In Graham Guests novel HENRYS CHAPEL we watch a film by proxy, through the eyes of a narrator who offers a play-by-play account, complete with probing analysis, of Albarb Noellas Lawnmower of a Jealous God. Within this unusual frame we encounter the story of an isolated family in rural East Texas, a tragicomic tale of incest, abuse, mental illness and liberation. As meta-narrative and narrative merge into one another, the films characters, its director, and implicitly the narrator and author themselves all become significant figures, while the film itself becomes both an immersive if ghostly medium and a distanced object of critical inquiry, its meaning and being inseparable from the metafictional organism that contains it. The final product is a kind of narratological incest heretofore unexplored.
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ISBN 13 9781952386220
ISBN 10 1952386225
Title Henry's Chapel
Author Graham Guest
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Sagging Meniscus Press
Year published 2022-02-01
Number of pages 236
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