Absolute Away

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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With Lance Olsen’s signature flair, Absolute Away is an innovative narrative triptych, a story of one life reimagined. The first movement tells the story of Edie Metzger, a little Jewish girl who bit Hermann Göring’s lip so hard it bled at a Nazi book-burning rally in 1933. In the second, in 1956, grown Edie is the passenger clinging to the backseat of the Oldsmobile 88 convertible driven by Jackson Pollock, moments before it plunges off the road. In the third, the narrative embarks into an ever-unspooling universe of Edies that might have lived—Edie’s gender, past, and consciousness flying forever farther apart.Absolute Away is a novel about travel in its largest sense—about the self, the past, the future, aging, ideas, relationships, our own mortal being(s) as transitive verbs, and how what and who we are connects to everything else.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-05-30
Mått217 x 140 x 17 mm
Vikt278 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor212
FörlagDzanc Books
ISBN9781950539956

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LANCE OLSEN is author of more than 25 books of and about innovative writing, including, most recently, the novels My Red Heaven (Dzanc, 2020) and Dreamlives of Debris (Dzanc, 2017). His short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies, such as Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, Fiction International, Village Voice, BOMB, McSweeney’s, and Best American Non-Required Reading.A Guggenheim, Berlin Prize, D.A.A.D. Artist-in-Berlin Residency, two-time N.E.A. Fellowship, and Pushcart Prize recipient, as well as a Fulbright Scholar, he taught experimental narrative theory and practiceat the University of Utah.

“A surreal story bridgeshistorical trauma with existential nightmares. ... Olsen depicts the horrors ofhistory and more speculative anxieties with equal power. Impossible toclassify, this novel raises big questions about memory and identity.” -KirkusReviews"Through the roiling thunderstorm and utter marvelousness of his exuberant imagination, Lance Olsen rescues Edith Metzger from the oblivion of her violent death to reinvent her with the crackling skinfizz and full-body thrill of a Jackson Pollock painting. This jazz improvisation of a novel will open and wreck you as you enter the miraculously weird shimmerings of the infinite and absolute away where identity shreds into a proliferation of possibilities—where anyone might have been, might still become, wildly, spectacularly other." ~ Melanie Rae Thon, composer of As If Fire Could Hide Us“I can't decide if Lance Olsen is a magician or a wizard oran open channel to some electric ether where pitch-perfect sentences andformally daring narratives tumble through to save us from the soul-annihilatingmundanity of most American fiction. This novel of recounting and re-imaginingthe life and lives of Edie Metzger will haunt you in all the best ways. AbsoluteAway dazzles.” —Robert Lopez, author of A Better Class of People "What makes Absolute Away so impressive isOlsen's ability to dive into two historical moments in a way that renders thempalpable and real, and then, having established the possibilities of the mirrorof realism, to tap that mirror sharply in a way that spreads cracks throughoutits surface, multiplying and complicating the real. A novel of possible andimpossible worlds that is above all a compelling, provocative read." —Brian Evenson, The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell