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The Last Novel

By David Markson

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| Paperback | 9781593761431

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In recent novels, which have been called “hypnotic,” “stunning,” and “exhilarating,” David Markson has created his own personal genre. In this new work, The Last Novel, an elderly author (referred to only as “Novelist”) announces that since thisContinue

In recent novels, which have been called “hypnotic,” “stunning,” and “exhilarating,” David Markson has created his own personal genre. In this new work, The Last Novel, an elderly author (referred to only as “Novelist”) announces that since this will be his final effort, he has “carte blanche to do anything he damned well pleases.”

Pressed by solitude and age, Novelist's preoccupations inevitably turn to the stories of other artists — their genius, their lack of recognition, and their deaths. Keeping his personal history out of the story as much as possible, Novelist creates an incantatory stream of fascinating triumphs and failures from the lives of famous and not-so-famous painters, writers, musicians, sports figures, and scientists.

As Novelist moves through his last years, a minimalist self-portrait emerges, becoming an intricate masterpiece from David Markson's astonishing imagination. Through these startling, sometimes comic, but often tragic anecdotes we unexpectedly discern the entire shape of a man's life.

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  • ‘Old. Tired. Sick. Alone. Broke.’

    Just when one had started mourning the demise of avant-garde and postmodern fiction, buried under the avalanche of historical novels, chick lit and just plain old traditional stories, here comes David Markson’s latest “novel,” “The Last Novel,” which ... (read full critics)

    nytimes published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 220 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 1593761430
  • ISBN-13: 9781593761431
  • Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard
  • Pub date: Mar 16, 2007
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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