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Drawing from language and imagery related to sleep, houses, food, animals, weather, and characters, the book the age of wire and string by ben marcus is a collection of bare but haunting short stories written in an almost postapocalyptic language, where the familiar becomes oblique, and where, for example, a proper name like albert might be defined as nightly killer of light, applied. The age of wire and string hardback common ben marcus on. Check back regularly to find your next favourite book. At publishing xpress, we offer printing with wireo binding from 8 to 300 pages. In the age of wire and string, hailed by robert coover. The age of wire and string kindle edition by marcus, ben. The wire follows many characters through many plots, and focuses on many of the same themes. The age of wire and string, a treasury of interconnected fables of violence and hope, stands out as an exhilarating work of literature. Buy the age of wire and string by ben marcus, catrin morgan from waterstones today.
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His novel, the flame alphabet, is forthcoming from pantheon. Graphic novels dont often make lists of comingofage books, but the sparseness with which brown draws, his storytelling ability, and his perfect rendering of the depths of what it means. Simon, who served as show runner, executive producer and head writer for the wire, focused each season, five in all, on different. Although he has published in a number of american journals, the age of wire and string knopf, 1995 is his first book publication. For humbuckers, there should be about 332 gap between the top of the low e polepiece and the bottom of the low e string fretted at the highest 21st or 22nd fret, and about 116 for the high e. Dogs, birds, horses, automobiles, and the weather are some of the recycled elements in marcuss first collection part fiction, part handbook as familiar objects take on markedly unfamiliar meanings. The book is composed of 8 sections, divided into 41 parts, which combine technical. And then, in 2002, he created the wire, also set in baltimore.
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