Break.Up: A Novel in Essays

by Joanna Walsh

Book Overview

A novel in essays that locates a "romance" within the mesh of electronic communication.

So I didn't call you: instead I posted a new avatar of myself without my habitual dark glasses. I have learned: an image, any image, is a blind. All avatars give different information, illusions of contact called Telepresence, none of them the real thing. You texted me, 3 am, from some station ... As though it made any difference. But it did.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 163590014X
• ISBN13: 9781635900149
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Semiotext(e)
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher