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Dioramas

Af: Blair Austin Engelsk Paperback

Dioramas

Af: Blair Austin Engelsk Paperback
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In this hybrid novel—part essay, part prose poem, part travel narrative—Blair Austin brings us nose to the glass with our own vanishing world, what we preserve and at what cost.


In a city far in the future, in a society that has come through a great upheaval, retired lecturer Wiggins moves from window to window in a museum, intricately describing each scene. Whales gliding above a shipwreck and a lost cup and saucer. An animatronic forest twenty stories tall. urban wolves in the light of an apartment building. A line of mosquitoes in uniforms and regalia, honored as heroes of the last great war.
 
Bit by bit, Wiggins unspools the secrets of his world—the conflict that brought it to the brink, and the great thinker, Michaux, who led the diorama revolution, himself now preserved under glass.
 
After a phone call in the middle of the night, Wiggins sets out to visit the Diorama of the Town: an entire, dioramic world, hundreds of miles across, where people are objects of curiosity, taxidermied and posed. All his life, Wiggins has longed to see it. But in the Town, he comes face to face with the diorama’s contradictions. Its legacy of political violence. Its manipulation by those with power and money. And its paper-thin promise of immortality.

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In this hybrid novel—part essay, part prose poem, part travel narrative—Blair Austin brings us nose to the glass with our own vanishing world, what we preserve and at what cost.


In a city far in the future, in a society that has come through a great upheaval, retired lecturer Wiggins moves from window to window in a museum, intricately describing each scene. Whales gliding above a shipwreck and a lost cup and saucer. An animatronic forest twenty stories tall. urban wolves in the light of an apartment building. A line of mosquitoes in uniforms and regalia, honored as heroes of the last great war.
 
Bit by bit, Wiggins unspools the secrets of his world—the conflict that brought it to the brink, and the great thinker, Michaux, who led the diorama revolution, himself now preserved under glass.
 
After a phone call in the middle of the night, Wiggins sets out to visit the Diorama of the Town: an entire, dioramic world, hundreds of miles across, where people are objects of curiosity, taxidermied and posed. All his life, Wiggins has longed to see it. But in the Town, he comes face to face with the diorama’s contradictions. Its legacy of political violence. Its manipulation by those with power and money. And its paper-thin promise of immortality.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 0
ISBN-13: 9781950539758
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 195053975X
Kategori: Moderne Samtidslitteratur
Udg. Dato: 4 maj 2023
Længde: 22mm
Bredde: 216mm
Højde: 139mm
Forlag: Dzanc Books
Oplagsdato: 4 maj 2023
Forfatter(e): Blair Austin
Forfatter(e) Blair Austin

Kategori Moderne Samtidslitteratur

ISBN-13 9781950539758

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 0

Udgave

Længde 22mm

Bredde 216mm

Højde 139mm

Udg. Dato 4 maj 2023

Oplagsdato 4 maj 2023

Forlag Dzanc Books