The Age Of Wire And String

Download or read book The Age of Wire and String written by Ben Marcus and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Age of Wire and String Ben Marcus welds together a new reality from the scrapheap of the past. Dogs, birds, horses, automobiles and the weather are some of the recycled elements in Marcus's first collection - part fiction, part handbook - as familiar objects take on markedly unfamiliar meanings. Gradually, this makeshift world, in its defiance of the laws of physics and language, finds a foundation in its own implausibility, as Marcus produces new feelings and sensations - both comic and disturbing - in the definitive guide to an unpredictable yet exhilarating plane of existence.