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Anchor Bk/New American Stories by Marcus Ben
$21.90 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
"In twenty-nine separate but ingenious ways, these stories seek permanent residence within a reader. They strive to become an emotional or intellectual cargo that might accompany us wherever, or however, we go. . . . If we are made by what we read, if language truly builds people into what they are, how ...Show more
Leaving The Sea by Ben Marcus
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Ben Marcus's highly anticipated new short story collection - his first since his extraordinary debut The Age of Wire and String.
Leaving the Sea by Ben Marcus
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A bold new short story collection from one of the most exhilarating and innovative writers of our time. The stories in Leaving the Sea take place in a world which is a distortion of our own, where strange illnesses strike at random and where people disappear without a trace. Ben Marcus has created a la ...Show more
New American Stories by Ben Marcus
$29.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
The short story is a barometer for the state and shape of literature. New American Stories presents the boldest, most innovative and most resonant fiction coming out of the American literary scene. Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet and Leaving the Sea, has here curated an anthology that gives the ...Show more
New American Stories by Ben Marcus
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
The short story is a barometer for the state and shape of literature. New American Stories presents the boldest, most innovative and most resonant fiction coming out of the American literary scene. Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet and Leaving the Sea, has here curated an anthology that gives the ...Show more
Notes from the Fog by Ben Marcus
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
With these thirteen transfixing, ingenious stories, Ben Marcus gives us timely dystopian visions of alienation in a modern world-cosmically and comically apt. Never has existential catastrophe been so much fun. In "The Grow-Light Blues," a hapless, corporate drone finds love after being disfigured testi ...Show more
The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus
$34.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In The Age of Wire and String Ben Marcus welds 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. ...Show more
The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In "The Flame Alphabet, " the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a work of heartbreak and horror, a novel about how far we will go, and the sorrows we will endure, in order to protect our families. A terrible epidemic has struck the country and the sound of children's speech has b ...Show more
The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The speech of children has mutated into a virus which is killing their parents. At first it only affects Jews, then everyone. Sam and Claire's lives are threatened when their daughter, Esther, becomes lethal. Each word she speaks is toxic to Sam and Claire. Radio transmissions from strange sources indic ...Show more
The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The speech of children has mutated into a virus which is killing their parents. At first it only affects Jews-then everyone. Living quietly in the suburbs, Sam and Claire's lives are threatened when their daughter, Esther, is infected with the disease. Each word she speaks - whether cruel or kind, banal ...Show more
The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus (Columbia University)
$21.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In "The Flame Alphabet," the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a novel about how far we will go in order to protect our loved ones. The sound of children's speech has become lethal. In the park, adults wither beneath the powerful screams of their offspring. For young parents Sam ...Show more
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