M.A.C. Farrant's quirky story collections have been well received. Here she presents a novel with a unique three-part structure.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Born in Sydney, Australia and raised in Victoria, British Columbia, M.A.C. Farrant is the acclaimed author of nine previous collections of satirical and humourous short fiction, and two works of non-fiction. Her writing has been widely anthologized in North America and has been dramatized for television; Farrant is also a frequent contributor to leading magazines such as Adbusters and Geist. Her 2004 memoir, My Turquoise Years, is being adapted into a stage play in conjunction with the Arts Club Theatre of Vancouver; production is slated for the 2011/12 season. Farrant has taught fiction workshops in Canada and Australia. She was a visiting writer-in-residence at Macquarie University in Sydney. A full-time writer currently residing in North Saanich, B.C., she has also taught part-time at the creative writing department in the University of Victoria and reviews books for the Vancouver Sun and the Globe & Mail. Farrant's work is infused with acerbic wit and iconoclastic innovation. As the Globe & Mail has noted, "Farrant is better at startling us with unnerving, often misanthropic visions of everyday life than perhaps any other Canadian writer". BC Bookworld has called her "Canada's most acerbic and intelligent humourist."
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This novel-length prose work is by turns philosophical, dark, comedic, and lyrical in approach as it attempts to imagine a multitude of possible futures. It is comprised of three parts and approaches the subject from three different angles, as follows: 1. Annotations About an Absence 2. Woman Records Brief Notes Regarding Absence 3. Other Prose Surrounding Absence Part 1 is written as a series of numbered annotations (1-115) about the day-long conversation/meditations between a couple who are living in a gated community and who are attempting to create an imaginary novel in which they express their fears about the future: Annotation #5: We concoct a make-believe novel and a set of annotations in which... We attempt to express the universal confusion of mind that is the main feature of contemporary life. Which is? We are afraid. Part 2 is written as notes to the above annotations revealing (in the spirit of transparency) the author's sources/ideas/questions and provides a running and somewhat satiric narrative on the subject. For example: Note #4. Images found in works by Cormac McCarthy, JG Ballard, HG Wells, PD James; Matrix and Mad Max films; PBS Nature segment on rise of poisonous jelly fish in world's oceans; and content of wet Jehovah Witness pamphlet left on woman's doorstep take hold in woman's mind. Each "note" is written as if it were a description of a late-night TV movie; definite articles have been removed as much as possible. Part 3 is comprised of twenty-one prose pieces which are complimentary to Parts 1 & 2 and range in length from one page to twenty pages. Among other things, they take aim at the individual's existence in a globalized world wherein human existence is bludgeoned by the threat of "end times" - climate change, species extinction, pandemics, and really bad politics - insofar as we are able to retain our status as "individuals". This book is an attempt by this writer - along with other writers, thinkers, and observers - to prick the bubble of Western complacency in the face of the "awful atrocity" which is the current world. I would hope that the book, while unique in style and approach, is, nonetheless, readable, engaging, enigmatic, worthy of discourse, and could even be considered, in parts, delightful.
This novel-length prose work is by turns philosophical, dark, comedic, and lyrical in approach as it attempts to imagine a multitude of possible futures. It is comprised of three parts and approaches the subject from three different angles, as follows: 1. Annotations About an Absence 2. Woman Records Brief Notes Regarding Absence 3. Other Prose Surrounding Absence Part 1 is written as a series of numbered annotations (1-115) about the day-long conversation/meditations between a couple who are living in a gated community and who are attempting to create an imaginary novel in which they express their fears about the future: Annotation #5: We concoct a make-believe novel and a set of annotations in which... We attempt to express the universal confusion of mind that is the main feature of contemporary life. Which is? We are afraid. Part 2 is written as notes to the above annotations revealing (in the spirit of transparency) the author's sources/ideas/questions and provides a running and somewhat satiric narrative on the subject. For example: Note #4. Images found in works by Cormac McCarthy, JG Ballard, HG Wells, PD James; Matrix and Mad Max films; PBS Nature segment on rise of poisonous jelly fish in world's oceans; and content of wet Jehovah Witness pamphlet left on woman's doorstep take hold in woman's mind. Each "note" is written as if it were a description of a late-night TV movie; definite articles have been removed as much as possible. Part 3 is comprised of twenty-one prose pieces which are complimentary to Parts 1 & 2 and range in length from one page to twenty pages. Among other things, they take aim at the individual's existence in a globalized world wherein human existence is bludgeoned by the threat of "end times" - climate change, species extinction, pandemics, and really bad politics - insofar as we are able to retain our status as "individuals". This book is an attempt by this writer - along with other writers, thinkers, and observers - to prick the bubble of Western complacency in the face of the "awful atrocity" which is the current world. I would hope that the book, while unique in style and approach, is, nonetheless, readable, engaging, enigmatic, worthy of discourse, and could even be considered, in parts, delightful.
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