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A Robert Lee - Suspicious Circumstances: An Album of Events and Oddities with Thoughts on the Word What, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Suspicious Circumstances: An Album of Events and Oddities with Thoughts on the Word What

Av A Robert Lee

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In this deliciously delightful and amusing new work, world-traveller, writer A. Robert Lee masters a surprising form: the weird-essay-vignette. In a series of random, yet suspiciously linked, encyclopaedia-like entries, he revisits the bizarre, the banal, and the absurd behaviours, events, and trivia that fuse to create a life – from sexing ostriches, to giant fake teeth, to the meaning of meaning. For readers who love informative comedy, or armchair philosophers who find flipping through dictionaries a serendipitous hoot, this will be a book never to forget, and always to return to.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2020-12-07
  • Mått: 150 x 228 x 10 mm
  • Vikt: 213 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Eyewear Publishing
  • Antal sidor: 170
  • Förlag: Eyewear Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781913606060
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A. Robert Lee was a professor in the English Department at Nihon University, Tokyo 1997-2011, having previously taught at the University of Kent, UK. Currently he lives in Murcia, Spain. His creative writings include Japan Textures: Sight and Word, with Mark Gresham (2007), Tokyo Commute (2011), Ars Geographica: Maps and Compasses (2012), Portrait and Landscape: Further Geographies (2013), Imaginarium: Sightings, Galleries, Sightlines (2013), Americas (2015), Off Course: Roundabouts & Deviations (2016), Password: A Book of Locks and Keys (2016), Written Eye: Visuals/Verse (2017), Alunizaje/Lunar Landings, with Blas Miras (2019), and Writer Directory: A Book of Encounters (2019). Among his academic publications are Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions (2003), which won the American Book Award in 2004, and Modern American Counter Writing: Beats, Outriders, Ethnics (2010). He edited The Joan Anderson Letter for The Black Spring Press Group in 2020.

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I had so much fun reading Suspicious Circumstances that it felt as good as getting high,no drugs needed. The wit and wisdom of its vignettes—really prose poems laced withlaughter—dissect the customs and dispel the dreariness of ordinary life. They are amuch-needed provocation, like Baudelaire’s Paris Spleen turned inside out.

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