Pamela: A Novel by Pamela Lu
Fiction. While the new sentence--the prose wing of Language writing--strips narrative down to pointed sets of shifting referents, Lu, in her debut, knowingly resuscitates it, creating a precise and humorous elegy to the self, and to its self-subversions. This quasi-bildungsroman charts the emergence of an 'I' (not 'P' and not 'Pamela, ' though the three characters do appear together) into a 20-something Bay Area, with memories of a suburban childhood close on her heels. This is a book of extraordinary philosophical subtlety and clarity, one that manages to tell a beautiful story in spite of itself--Publishers Weekly.
Lu, Pamela: - Pamela Lu was born in Southern California and studied mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 1995 she has worked as a technical writer in Silicon Valley and co-edited Idiom, an online journal and chapbook press. In addition to a work of part fiction and part earnet mockumentary, AMBIENT PARKING LOT (Kenning Editions, 2011), a book of fanciful nonfiction, PAMELA: A NOVEL (Atelos, 1999), she has had prose and poetry published in a number of journals, including CHAIN, Chicago Review, Clamour, Explosive Magazine, Interlope, Mirage, Fascicle, and Poetics Journal, and in the anthologies BAY POETICS and BITING THE ERROR. Lu lives in San Francisco.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781891190049 |
| ISBN 10 | 1891190040 |
| Title | Pamela: A Novel |
| Author | Pamela Lu |
| Series | Atelos |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Atelos |
| Year published | 1998-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 98 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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