It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over (eBook)

Anne de Marcken (Autor)

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2024
160 Seiten
New Directions (Verlag)
978-0-8112-3786-4 (ISBN)

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Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how much of our memory, of our bodies, of the world as we know it how much of what we love can we lose before we are lost? And then what happens?CO-WINNER OF THE NOVEL PRIZEWINNER OF THE URSULA K. LE GUIN PRIZEWINNER OF THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARDWINNER OF A PACIFIC NORTHWEST BOOK AWARDThis third perspective on myself is disconcerting.The heroine of the spare and haunting It Lasts Forever and Then Its Overis voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, she notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. And even if she has forgotten her name and much of what connects her to her humanity, she remembers with an implacable and nearly unbearable longing the place where she knew herself and was knownwhere she loved and was loved. Traveling across the landscapes of time and of space, heading always west, and carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest, our undead narrator encounters and loses parts of her body and her self in one terrifying, hilarious, and heartbreaking situation after another.A bracing writer of great nerve and verve, Anne de Marcken bends reality (and the readers mind) with throwaway assurance. It Lasts Forever and Then Its Over plumbs mortality and how it changes everything, except possibly love. Delivering a near-Beckettian whopping to the readers imagination, this is one of the sharpest and funniest novels of recent years, a tale for our dispossessed times.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.3.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Schlagworte: alternate realities • American writer • animal • climate crisis • Comic • creepy • Crow • disembodied narrator • experimental fiction • familiar • Fitzcarraldo • formal innovation • gender fluidity • ghost • giramondo • Haunted America • haunting • hybrid fictions • Interdisciplinary • lesbian fiction • LGBTQ • Life after Death • Mortality • Novel Prize • on the road • pining • post-apocalyptic • queer literature • Raven • Spare • Spectral • Speculative Fiction • spooky • Stylist • Women writer
• ISBN-10: 0-8112-3786-9 / 0811237869
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-3786-4 / 9780811237864