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20 produkter
Strange Truth About Us
a novel of absence
E-bok, 2011
194 kr
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“Anthropologist of the absurd” and “brave iconoclast,” M.A.C. Farrant positively bristles in this three-part novel-length work of prose fragments, snippets, questions, speculations, and meditations, by turns philosophical, dark, comedic, and lyrical in its attempts to imagine a multitude of …
Darwin Alone in the Universe
E-bok, 2003
164 kr
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These new, off-side stories continue M.A.C. Farrant’s exploration of the relation of fiction to the evolving corporate construction of reality in the media and information age. Objective reality (what’s out there) in our culture has become a performance of make-believe (fiction), and the …
Down the Road to Eternity
New & Selected Fiction
Av M.A.C. Farrant, Karl Siegler
E-bok, 2013
224 kr
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Down the Road to Eternity: New & Selected Fiction is a collection of M.A.C. Farrant’s work dating from 1985 to 2009. Compiled of selected fiction from Sick Pigeon (1991), Raw Material (1993), Altered Statements (1995), Word of Mouth (1996), What’s True, Darling (1997), Darwin Alone in the Universe …
World Afloat
E-bok, 2014
193 kr
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City of Victoria Butler Book Prize: M.A.C. Farrant, The World Afloat (Winner) In The World Afloat, a series of seventy-five “miniatures” that melds narrative with elements of prose poem and farce, master of the absurd and expert observer M.A.C. Farrant peers into the complexities of human …
Days
Forecasts, Warnings, Advice
E-bok, 2016
183 kr
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Who doesn't read their daily horoscope, searching for guidance about what's to come, how to live? Fortune-telling, sex, death, love, ordinary and special days, time passing, humor making it all bearablethese are the repeated gestures running through The Days, a kind of absurdist guidebook made up …
One Good Thing
A Living Memoir
Häftad, 2021
167 kr
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One Good Thing is a charming collision of memoir with the living, exuberant, and vulnerable natural world. Written in sixty-four short epistolary chapters, M.A.C. Farrant’s latest offering represents a search for hope and appeasement in a rapidly changing and often perplexing society. One Good …
Great Happiness
Stories and Comics
E-bok, 2020
183 kr
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A delightful collection of seventy miniature fictions and comics riffing on the theme of happiness, The Great Happiness offers a series of lively antidotes to the current climate of doom. Some of the book’s miniatures are narratives with a twist, others are imaginative flights, such as the recently …
One Good Thing
A Living Memoir
E-bok, 2021
183 kr
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One Good Thing is a charming collision of memoir with the living, exuberant, and vulnerable natural world. Written in sixty-four short epistolary chapters, M.A.C. Farrant’s latest offering represents a search for hope and appeasement in a rapidly changing and often perplexing society. One Good …
Jigsaw
A Puzzle in Ninety-Three and a Half Pieces
Häftad, 2023
210 kr
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Celebrated humorist and short-story writer M.A.C. Farrant’s new non-fiction work comprises ninety-three puzzle pieces that mimic the actual practice of assembling a jigsaw puzzle. By turns whimsical, insightful, meditative, funny, and factual, the “pieces” of Jigsaw touch on themes readers of the …
Jigsaw
A Puzzle in Ninety-Three Pieces
E-bok, 2023
198 kr
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Celebrated humorist and short-story writer M.A.C. Farrant’s new non-fiction work comprises ninety-three puzzle pieces that mimic the actual practice of assembling a jigsaw puzzle. By turns whimsical, insightful, meditative, funny, and factual, the “pieces” of Jigsaw touch on themes readers of the …
My Turquoise Years
A Memoir
Häftad, 2025
218 kr
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** Twentieth anniversary edition of Farrant’s beloved memoir of coming of age with an absent mother in a vanished time** The setting is Vancouver Island, the year 1960. It is the era of the Three Stooges and the Red Menace, the apex of plastic, Arborite, and everything turquoise: high heels, pedal …
My Turquoise Years
A Memoir, Twentieth Anniversary Edition
E-bok, 2024
207 kr
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** Twentieth anniversary edition of Farrant’s beloved memoir of coming of age with an absent mother in a vanished time** The setting is Vancouver Island, the year 1960. It is the era of the Three Stooges and the Red Menace, the apex of plastic, Arborite, and everything turquoise: high heels, pedal …
My Turquoise Years
A Memoir
E-bok, 2004
127 kr
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Throughout her childhood, Marion Farrant heard exotic stories of the sophisticated life her mother, Nancy, led aboard cruise ships and in Australia. Nancy’s world of furs, jewels, cigarette holders, and handsome men seemed miles away from the west-coast hamlet of Cordova Bay, where Marion lived …
Down the Road to Eternity
New & Selected Fiction
Av M.A.C. Farrant, Karl Siegler
Häftad, 2009
210 kr
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