Shadowplay (Paperback, New)

In Java, a master of the shadow-puppet theater seeks to possess-by his art-a woman, who perishes as though by the contagion of his unnatural desire. Shadowplay is a meditation on story-telling as an act of seizure, a parable of obsession and of the danger of confounding the real with its representations. *** "Stories compensate for lives unlived. They are what Norman Lock, or his avatar Guntur, calls shadows, negative reflections on a backlit screen, comprising, through artistry and brief illumination, ghosts. Lock's teller is imprisoned by darkness, captivated by warriors and princesses no longer, if ever, living. Death becomes a distance from which the voices of these unliving return. It is a journey as delicious as it is threatening." -R.M. Berry *** "Wise up and get all you can of Lock. His writing was written by a writer exquisite in the singularity (read for this "genius") of his utterance." -Gordon Lish *** "[Lock's] prose is melodial, and alert to every signal from the unseen." -Gary Lutz

General

Imprint:	Ellipsis Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2009
First published:	October 2009
Authors:	Norman Lock
Dimensions:	203 x 127 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	138
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-9637536-3-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-9637536-3-0
Barcode:	9780963753632

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