The Way Home: Selected Longer ProseFiction. As the only English-speaking member of OULIPO, the School of Potential Literature, Harry Mathews has long been hailed as one of the most unique voices in American fiction writing. THE WAY HOME collects Country Cooking in Central France, perhaps the longest and most extravagant recipe ever concocted; Singular Pleasures, an unabashed chronicle of masturbation by both sexes; The Orchard, Mathews' stark, beautiful tribute to his friend, the late Georges Perec; Armenian Papers, a sequence of wartime prose poems; the essay Translation and the Oulipo; The Way Home, derived from a series of drawings by Trevor Winkfield (included in the text); and Autobiography, in which Mathews tells his own life story entirely in terms of other people. |
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