Sinking of Odradek Stadium

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Häftad, Engelska, 2026

359 kr

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An experimental “comic masterpiece” (The New York Times) of love, longing, and a search for buried treasure.Told through a series of letters between newlyweds Zachary McCaltex, a Miami librarian, and Twang Panattapam, who is currently residing in Italy, The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium is a rollicking, seamless tale of love, dashed hopes and frustrations, and missed connections. As husband and wife try to trace the whereabouts of a treasure supposedly lost off the coast of Florida in the sixteenth century, their letters also see them navigating a relationship separated not only by an ocean, but by their vastly different cultures. In the end, the postal service may be responsible for the losses they face—including Zachary's sanity—along the way.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-12-31
Mått133 x 203 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor200
FörlagDalkey Archive Press
ISBN9781628976755

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Harry Mathews was born in New York City in 1930 and spent his adult life in the United States and in France, where he co-founded the influential journal Locus Solus with John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler in 1961. He was the first American member of the literary consortium Oulipo, alongside Raymond Queneau, Italo Calvino, and Georges Perec. His many writings, spanning novels, short fiction, poems, essays, and translations from the French, include The Conversions, Tlooth, The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium, Cigarettes, The Journalist, My Life in CIA, and The Solitary Twin. Mathews was honored by the French government as an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters and earned awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Endowment for the Arts. He died in Key West, Florida, in 2017.