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Break.up - A Novel in Essays (Paperback)
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Break.up - A Novel in Essays (Paperback)
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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. -from Break.up In
this "novel in essays," Joanna Walsh simultaneously flees and
pursues an ambiguous partner in an affair conducted mostly online.
Traversing Europe, she awaits emails and texts and PMs, awash in
her dreams, offering succinct meditations on connection and
communication. If Marguerite Duras situated the telephone as the
twentieth century's preferred hopeless form of connection, Walsh
pinpoints the nodal points of a "romance" within today's mesh of
electronic communication. As Deborah Levy observed recently,
"Joanna Walsh is fast becoming one of our most important writers."
Her 2015 book Hotel, an investigation of transience conducted
through hotel reviews, was described by The Paris Review as "a
slim, sharp meditation on hotels and desires. [Walsh is] funny
throughout, even as she documents the dissolution of her marriage
and the peculiar brand of alienation on offer in lavish places."
Praise for Joanna Walsh "Walsh's writing has intellectual rigor and
bags of formal bravery." -The Financial Times "Hotel feels like
something you want to endlessly quote: sharp, knowing, casually
erudite ... there is power and an affecting gravitas in what Walsh
does with detail." -Sydney Review of Books "Walsh is a sublimely
elegant writer ... artful and intelligent." -The New Statesman
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