The Age of Wire and String

by Ben Marcus

In The Age of Wire and String, hailed by Robert Coover as "the most audacious literary debut in decades," Ben Marcus weilds 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 collection--part fiction, part handbook--as familiar objects take on markedly unfamiliar meanings. Gradually, this makeshift world, in its defiance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628975717
• ISBN13: 9781628975710
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"