It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
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Book Overview CO-WINNER OF THE NOVEL PRIZEWINNER OF THE URSULA K. LE GUIN PRIZEWINNER OF THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARDWINNER OF A PACIFIC NORTHWE...
CO-WINNER OF THE NOVEL PRIZE
WINNER OF THE URSULA K. LE GUIN PRIZE
WINNER OF THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD
WINNER OF A PACIFIC NORTHWEST BOOK AWARD
This third perspective on myself is disconcerting.
The heroine of the spare and haunting It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, she notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. And even if she has forgotten her name and much of what connects her to her humanity, she remembers with an implacable and nearly unbearable longing the place where she knew herself and was known--where she loved and was loved. Traveling across the landscapes of time and of space, heading always west, and carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest, our undead narrator encounters and loses parts of her body and her self in one terrifying, hilarious, and heartbreaking situation after another.
A bracing writer of great nerve and verve, Anne de Marcken bends reality (and the reader's mind) with throwaway assurance. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over plumbs mortality and how it changes everything, except possibly love. Delivering a near-Beckettian whopping to the reader's imagination, this is one of the sharpest and funniest novels of recent years, a tale for our dispossessed times.
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 160 | Language: English | Publisher: NEW DIRECTIONS | ISBN: 0811237850
FormatPaperback
Pages160
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0811237850
EAN9780811237857
PublisherNEW DIRECTIONS
Publication Date2024-03-05
Edition1
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight0.35 Pounds
Length7.97 Inches
Width5.26 Inches
Height0.38 Inches
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