
Age of Wire and String
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 makes...
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 makes...