Author: Jason Schwartz
Year: 2013
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Poetry, Fiction
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9781939293213
9781536639797
1939293219
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John the Posthumous exists in between fiction and poetry, elegy and history: a kind of novella in objects, it is an anatomy of marriage and adultery, an interlocking set of fictional histories, and the staccato telling of a murder, perhaps two murders. This is a literary album of a pre-Internet world, focused on physical elements -- all of which are tools for either violence or sustenance. Knives, old iron gates, antique houses in flames; Biblical citations, blood and a history of the American bed: the unsettling, half-perceived images, and their precise but alien manipulation by a master of the language will stay with readers. Its themes are familiar -- violence, betrayal, failure -- its depiction of these utterly original and hauntingly beautiful.
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