| Edition |
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition, first edition. |
| Description |
1660 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
Rooted in the western United States in the decade post-9/11, theMystery.doc follows a young writer and his wife as he attempts to write his second book, a national epic he hopes will last forever, and as he searches for a form that will express the world as it has become, revealing the interconnectedness of all our lives. Pop-up ads, internet search results, spam, lines of code, frames of film and television mix with canonical works of literature, alchemical manuscripts, transcripts of personal conversations, and the story of a man who wakes up one morning not knowing who he is, a blank document called themystery.doc newly appeared on his computer. Part love story, part prose poem, part documentary, part existential whodunit, part future-fiction, part Bildungsroman, part memoir, theMystery.doc is about the quest to find something lasting in a world where everything is in danger of slipping away. Love, loss, birth, death, technology, terrorism and the American Dream come together to form a great symphonic work that dazzles in both its structure and in its deep emotional resonance. |
| Subject |
Authorship -- Fiction.
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Memory -- Fiction.
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American Dream -- Fiction.
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FICTION / Literary.
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Authorship. (OCoLC)fst00822442
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Memory. (OCoLC)fst01015913
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| Genre/Form |
Experimental fiction.
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Experimental fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726602
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| Added Title |
Mystery.doc |
| ISBN |
9780802124913 (hardback) |
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0802124917 (hardback) |
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1611856205 (UK edition) |
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9781611856200 (UK edition) |
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