Ben Marcus
In ,The Age of Wire and String,, hailed by Robert Coover as "the most audacious literary debut in decades," Ben Marcus welds together a new reality from the scrapheap of the past. Dogs, birds, horses, automobiles, and the weather are some of the recycled elements in Marcus's first collectionâ€”part fiction, part handbookâ€”as familiar objects take on markedly unfamiliar meanings. Gradually, this makeshift world, in its defiance of the laws of physics and language, finds a foundation in its own implausibility, as Marcus produces new feelings and sensationsâ€”both comic and disturbingâ€”in the definitive guide to an unpredictable yet exhilarating plane of existence.
Fiction,Short Stories,Poetry,Literature,American,Literary Fiction,Literature,Fantasy,Literature,20th Century,Novels,United States
The Age of Wire and String