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"In the novel, Year of the Rat by Marc Anthony Richardson, an artist returns to the city of his birth to tend to his invalid mother, only to find himself torn apart by memories and longings. Narrated by this nameless figure whose rants, reveries, and Rabelaisian escapades take him on a Dantesqu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Richardson, Marc Anthony, 1972-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : Fiction Collective 2, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Self-perception.
Opportunity.
Mothers and sons.
Artists.
FICTION / Literary.
Occasion (Philosophie) > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Perception de soi > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Meres et fils > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Artistes > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Opportunity > Fiction.
Self-perception > Fiction.
Mothers and sons > Fiction.
Artists > Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Fiction.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"In the novel, Year of the Rat by Marc Anthony Richardson, an artist returns to the city of his birth to tend to his invalid mother, only to find himself torn apart by memories and longings. Narrated by this nameless figure whose rants, reveries, and Rabelaisian escapades take him on a Dantesque descent into himself, the story follows him and his mother as they share a one-bedroom apartment over the course of a year"--
"Winner of FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize In The Year of the Rat, an artist returns to the dystopian city of his birth to tend to his invalid mother, only to find himself torn apart by memories and longings. Narrated by this nameless figure whose rants, reveries, and Rabelaisian escapades take him on a Dantesque descent into himself, the story follows him and his mother as they share a one-bedroom apartment over the course of a year. Despite his mother's precarious health, the lingering memories of a lost love, an incarcerated sibling, a repressed sexuality, and an anarchic inability to support himself, he pursues his dream of becoming an avant-garde artist. His prospects grow dim until a devastating death provides a painful and unforeseeable opportunity. With a voice that is poetic and profane, ethereal and irreverent, cyclical and succinct, he roams from vignette to vignette, creating a polyphonic patchwork quilt of a family portrait"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (235 pages).
ISBN:9781573668682

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