Duplex: A Novel
by:
Kathryn Davis (author)
Kathryn Davis,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Graywolf Press on 09-03-2013
Kathryn Davis,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Graywolf Press on 09-03-2013
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781555976538 (1555976530)
ASIN: 9781555976538
Publish date: 03-09-2013
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
In my favorite passage of Kafka’s [b:The Trial|17690|The Trial|Franz Kafka|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1320399438s/17690.jpg|2965832], K. takes a tour of the Court’s offices. No one that K. encounters finds it odd that the Court’s offices are located in the dark, stifling attic of a tenemen...
At some point everyone who had ever known you, including much younger people, would forget you and die without ever having told people even younger than themselves about you--and then you would really be gone.She tried to remember how long ago it had been that she'd felt the fluttering in her pocket...
80 pages in, and I'm abandoning for now. It's surreal and inventive, but it's slow going, and Americanah is in from the library. This one is more concerned with atmosphere and images than plot, and, judging from the vague reviews it's received (did anyone know what it was about?), I think I've gotte...
By all appearances, the setting of Duplex seems familiar: a suburban street where middle aged teacher Miss Vicks lives alongside her students, school sweethearts Mary and Eddie, with her childlike dachshund. But this suburb is folded in time and place, dominated by a sorcerer and populated by both h...
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