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Fakes - An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts (Paperback, New)
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Fakes - An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts (Paperback, New)
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Loot Price R495
Discovery Miles 4 950
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In our bureaucratized culture, we re inundated by documents:
itineraries, instruction manuals, permit forms, primers, letters of
complaint, end-of-year reports, accidentally forwarded email,
traffic updates, ad infinitum. David Shields and Matthew Vollmer,
both writers and professors, have gathered forty short fictions
that they ve found to be seriously hilarious and irresistibly
teachable (in both writing and literature courses): counterfeit
texts that capture the barely suppressed frustration and yearning
that percolate just below the surface of most official documents.
The innovative stories collected in Fakes including ones by Ron
Carlson (a personal ad), Amy Hempel (a complaint to the parking
department), Rick Moody (Works Cited), and Lydia Davis (a letter to
a funeral parlor) trace the increasingly blurry line between fact
and fiction and exemplify a crucial form for the twenty-first
century."
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