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PublisherTwo Lines Press

ISBN-101931883343

ISBN-139781931883344

eBay Product ID (ePID)172138587

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Book TitleFata Morgana Books

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicLiterary, Romance / Collections & Anthologies

Publication Year2013

GenreFiction

AuthorJonathan Littell, Charlotte Mandell

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight8.5 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2013-936923

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"Four nightmarish novellas . . . The writing is sinuous and propulsive; disturbing images are rendered with icy, swift precision." -- The New Yorker "These stories lead the reader on a race through the abyss . . ." -- Paul La Farge, author of Luminous Airplanes "Here genitalia prove as amorphous as the desires they incite, and slaughter leaves only casual impressions upon its casualties. . . . As much as we loathe these atrocity exhibits, we turn every knob. Littell has organized the mechanisms, but our desire is what fuels the machine." -- BOMB "The stories evoke the fin-de-sicle sensibility of Baudelaire or Schnitzler." -- Publishers Weekly "A living, breathing, sublime collection of novellas that ignite the reader's imagination and entices their most base of desires to grab control." -- Typographical Era "The four novellas that comprise this collection deal with a wealth of themes, but the ultimate one is of unachieved desire and the isolating mania it spawns. . . . 'Surrealistic' doesn't fully capture the formal breed of this collection." -- HTMLGIANT "Littell's stories are structurally elegant . . . The Fata Morgana Books is a frequently thought-provoking [read]." -- Foreword Reviews "A gorgeous tour through a world of human excess and futility . . . exhilarating." -- Numro Cinq, "Four nightmarish novellas . . . The writing is sinuous and propulsive; disturbing images are rendered with icy, swift precision." -- The New Yorker "These stories lead the reader on a race through the abyss . . ." -- Paul La Farge, author of Luminous Airplanes "Here genitalia prove as amorphous as the desires they incite, and slaughter leaves only casual impressions upon its casualties. . . . As much as we loathe these atrocity exhibits, we turn every knob. Littell has organized the mechanisms, but our desire is what fuels the machine." -- BOMB "The stories evoke the fin-de-siècle sensibility of Baudelaire or Schnitzler." -- Publishers Weekly "A living, breathing, sublime collection of novellas that ignite the reader's imagination and entices their most base of desires to grab control." -- Typographical Era "The four novellas that comprise this collection deal with a wealth of themes, but the ultimate one is of unachieved desire and the isolating mania it spawns. . . . 'Surrealistic' doesn't fully capture the formal breed of this collection." -- HTMLGIANT "Littell's stories are structurally elegant . . . The Fata Morgana Books is a frequently thought-provoking [read]." -- Foreword Reviews "A gorgeous tour through a world of human excess and futility . . . exhilarating." -- Numéro Cinq, "Four nightmarish novellas . . . The writing is sinuous and propulsive; disturbing images are rendered with icy, swift precision." -- The New Yorker "These stories lead the reader on a race through the abyss . . ." -- Paul La Farge, author of Luminous Airplanes "Here genitalia prove as amorphous as the desires they incite, and slaughter leaves only casual impressions upon its casualties. . . . As much as we loathe these atrocity exhibits, we turn every knob. Littell has organized the mechanisms, but our desire is what fuels the machine." -- BOMB "The stories evoke the fin-de-sicle sensibility of Baudelaire or Schnitzler." -- Publishers Weekly "A living, breathing, sublime collection of novellas that ignite the reader's imagination and entices their most base of desires to grab control." -- Typographical Era "The four novellas that comprise this collection deal with a wealth of themes, but the ultimate one is of unachieved desire and the isolating mania it spawns. . . . 'Surrealistic' doesn't fully capture the formal breed of this collection." -- HTMLGIANT "Littell's stories are structurally elegant . . . The Fata Morgana Books is a frequently thought-provoking [read]." -- Foreword Reviews "A gorgeous tour through a world of human excess and futility . . . exhilarating." -- Numro Cinq, These stories lead the reader on a race through the abyss . . ." — Paul La Farge, author of Luminous Airplanes The stories evoke the fin-de-siècle sensibility of Baudelaire or Schnitzler." — Publishers Weekly A living, breathing, sublime collection of novellas that ignite the reader's imagination and entices their most base of desires to grab control." — Typographical Era "The four novellas that comprise this collection deal with a wealth of themes, but the ultimate one is of unachieved desire and the isolating mania it spawns. . . . #145;Surrealistic' doesn't fully capture the formal breed of this collection." — HTMLGIANT "Littell's stories are structurally elegant . . . The Fata Morgana Books is a frequently thought-provoking [read]." — Foreword Reviews "A gorgeous tour through a world of human excess and futility . . . exhilarating." — Numéro Cinq, These stories lead the reader on a race through the abyss . . ." — Paul La Farge, author of Luminous Airplanes The stories evoke the fin-de-siècle sensibility of Baudelaire or Schnitzler." — Publishers Weekly A living, breathing, sublime collection of novellas that ignite the reader's imagination and entices their most base of desires to grab control." — Typographical Era, These stories lead the reader on a race through the abyss . . ." — Paul La Farge, author of Luminous Airplanes The stories evoke the fin-de-siècle sensibility of Baudelaire or Schnitzler." — Publishers Weekly A living, breathing, sublime collection of novellas that ignite the reader's imagination and entices their most base of desires to grab control." — Typographical Era "The four novellas that comprise this collection deal with a wealth of themes, but the ultimate one is of unachieved desire and the isolating mania it spawns. . . . #145;Surrealistic' doesn't fully capture the formal breed of this collection." — HTMLGIANT, "Four nightmarish novellas . . . The writing is sinuous and propulsive; disturbing images are rendered with icy, swift precision." — The New Yorker These stories lead the reader on a race through the abyss . . ." — Paul La Farge, author of Luminous Airplanes The stories evoke the fin-de-siècle sensibility of Baudelaire or Schnitzler." — Publishers Weekly A living, breathing, sublime collection of novellas that ignite the reader's imagination and entices their most base of desires to grab control." — Typographical Era "The four novellas that comprise this collection deal with a wealth of themes, but the ultimate one is of unachieved desire and the isolating mania it spawns. . . . #145;Surrealistic' doesn't fully capture the formal breed of this collection." — HTMLGIANT "Littell's stories are structurally elegant . . . The Fata Morgana Books is a frequently thought-provoking [read]." — Foreword Reviews "A gorgeous tour through a world of human excess and futility . . . exhilarating." — Numéro Cinq, "Four nightmarish novellas . . . The writing is sinuous and propulsive; disturbing images are rendered with icy, swift precision." — The New Yorker These stories lead the reader on a race through the abyss . . ." — Paul La Farge, author of Luminous Airplanes "Here genitalia prove as amorphous as the desires they incite, and slaughter leaves only casual impressions upon its casualties. . . . As much as we loathe these atrocity exhibits, we turn every knob. Littell has organized the mechanisms, but our desire is what fuels the machine." — BOMB The stories evoke the fin-de-siècle sensibility of Baudelaire or Schnitzler." — Publishers Weekly A living, breathing, sublime collection of novellas that ignite the reader's imagination and entices their most base of desires to grab control." — Typographical Era "The four novellas that comprise this collection deal with a wealth of themes, but the ultimate one is of unachieved desire and the isolating mania it spawns. . . . ‘Surrealistic' doesn't fully capture the formal breed of this collection." — HTMLGIANT "Littell's stories are structurally elegant . . . The Fata Morgana Books is a frequently thought-provoking [read]." — Foreword Reviews "A gorgeous tour through a world of human excess and futility . . . exhilarating." — Numéro Cinq, "Four nightmarish novellas . . . The writing is sinuous and propulsive; disturbing images are rendered with icy, swift precision." -- The New Yorker "These stories lead the reader on a race through the abyss . . ." -- Paul La Farge, author of Luminous Airplanes "Here genitalia prove as amorphous as the desires they incite, and slaughter leaves only casual impressions upon its casualties. . . . As much as we loathe these atrocity exhibits, we turn every knob. Littell has organized the mechanisms, but our desire is what fuels the machine." -- BOMB "The stories evoke the fin-de-siècle sensibility of Baudelaire or Schnitzler." -- Publishers Weekly "A living, breathing, sublime collection of novellas that ignite the reader's imagination and entices their most base of desires to grab control." -- Typographical Era "The four novellas that comprise this collection deal with a wealth of themes, but the ultimate one is of unachieved desire and the isolating mania it spawns. . . . 'Surrealistic' doesn't fully capture the formal breed of this collection." -- HTMLGIANT "Littell's stories are structurally elegant . . . The Fata Morgana Books is a frequently thought-provoking [read]." -- Foreword Reviews "A gorgeous tour through a world of human excess and futility . . . exhilarating." -- Numéro Cinq, "Four nightmarish novellas . . . The writing is sinuous and propulsive; disturbing images are rendered with icy, swift precision." — The New Yorker These stories lead the reader on a race through the abyss . . ." — Paul La Farge, author of Luminous Airplanes "Here genitalia prove as amorphous as the desires they incite, and slaughter leaves only casual impressions upon its casualties. . . . As much as we loathe these atrocity exhibits, we turn every knob. Littell has organized the mechanisms, but our desire is what fuels the machine." — BOMB The stories evoke the fin-de-siècle sensibility of Baudelaire or Schnitzler." — Publishers Weekly A living, breathing, sublime collection of novellas that ignite the reader's imagination and entices their most base of desires to grab control." — Typographical Era "The four novellas that comprise this collection deal with a wealth of themes, but the ultimate one is of unachieved desire and the isolating mania it spawns. . . . #145;Surrealistic' doesn't fully capture the formal breed of this collection." — HTMLGIANT "Littell's stories are structurally elegant . . . The Fata Morgana Books is a frequently thought-provoking [read]." — Foreword Reviews "A gorgeous tour through a world of human excess and futility . . . exhilarating." — Numéro Cinq

Dewey Decimal843/.92

SynopsisThe Prix Goncourt-winning author of the scandalous The Kindly Ones returns with four new novellas that offer startlingly fresh depictions of age-old obsessions: sex and love, desiring and gazing, and the memories that take a lifetime to process. In The Fata Morgana Books, Littell crafts unique narrative voices by letting sensual feelings take the fore, whether the slippery promise of silk underwear, the dizzy intensity of abstract art, the languid torpor of a French beach, the shock of a bull's goring horn, or the warmth of a fondled breast. The connections between events are left obscure, yet these novellas are as striking as a gust of frigid air, presenting a skewed reality in which the reader is drawn forward to figure out who, or what, is telling the story, and why. Narrated by what may be hermaphrodites or ghosts, wanders or wonders, Littell's masterful, effortless sentences carry these stories that illuminate the shadowy depths of solitude, reflection, longing, and lust. "In Quarters" is a Proustian ghost story, or maybe a memory, or a dream. Narrated by a man who may or may not exist, it follows him through a sprawling mansion where he cares for a sick child, though he has forgotten whether or not the boy is his, while stealing food from other's plates and having sex with a beautiful young woman. When he travels to a provincial city, the young woman reappears--or does she? Repeated brushes with shadowy men with umbrellas offer a hint of menace that forms the backbone of this strange tale. "Story About Nothing" follows a man who cannot remember his birthday "or even the sign under which I was born" as he experiences transgenderism, a pornographic tape given to him by a mysterious stranger, and a Hemingway-esque series of bullfights under the hot Spanish sun. As Littell takes his narrator through a series of affairs, each more ephemeral then the last, it becomes clear that this is a story about the transience of sex, the way that desire evaporates in satiation and then reappears when two strangers share a long look over a strong drink. Anchored by striking images--a lime sorbet, children diving off of high rocks--Littell's tale becomes a trip through desire that is not soon forgotten. Commanding in spite of their vagueness, beguilingly easy to read but full of depth and mystery, these novellas explore the in-between spaces: between thoughts, between bodies, between hungers and their satisfactions, between eyes and the things they look at.

LC Classification NumberPQ3939.L58A2 2013