Adrift in a Vanishing CityFiction. Neither a traditional collection of short stories nor a novel, ADRIFT IN A VANISHING CITY is an unguided tour through the tortured landscape of obsessive love and unreliable memory. These stories wind through the real and the imagined, linking Budapest, Berlin, Mexico City and Pittsburg, Kansas to the shadow-haunted places within the human heart. "...A small landmark in the sedimentation of new form in fiction..."-Samuel R. Delany. "ADRIFT IN A VANISHING CITY ought to come with a warning label: Herein lie levels of meaning beyond the grasp of the blissful best-seller reader. In poetic prose that flouts conventional fictive forms, Czyz draws on classical myth, fable, folklore, Shakespearean tragedy and other genres to create a metaphor of modern alienation"--Joe Castronovo. |
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... sleep - with - you - on - the - first - night - it - just - hap- pened - that - way - we - fit - together - so - well routine . Et tu , Big Brutus ? Yes , he has a big brutus all right and [ 130 ] ADRIFT IN A VANISHING CITY.
... sleep - with - you - on - the - first - night - it - just - hap- pened - that - way - we - fit - together - so - well routine . Et tu , Big Brutus ? Yes , he has a big brutus all right and [ 130 ] ADRIFT IN A VANISHING CITY.
Contents
Budapest Blue | 105 |
Bring on the Night | 125 |
Fire from Heaven | 185 |
Copyright | |
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