| Description |
217 pages 21 cm |
| Summary |
"A love story about fandom, an ode to music snobs, and a time-tripping work of speculative fiction--in verse. In the year 2063, on the edge of the Crater formerly known as Montréal, a middle-aged man and his ex's daughter search for a cult hero: the leader of a short-lived band named after a forgotten work of poetry and known to fans through a forgotten work of music criticism. In this exuberantly plotted verse novel, Guriel follows an obsessive cult-following through the twenty-first century. Some things change (there's metamorphic smart print for music mags; the Web is called the "Zuck"). Some things don't (poetry readings are still, mostly, terrible). But the characters, including a robot butler who stands with Ishiguro's Stevens as one of the great literary domestics, are unforgettable. Splicing William Gibson with Roberto Bolaño, Pale Fire with Thomas Pynchon, Forgotten Work is a time-tripping work of speculative fiction. It's a love story about fandom, an ode to music snobs, a satire on the human need to value the possible over the actual--and a verse novel of Nabokovian virtuosity."-- Provided by publisher. |
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Issued also in electronic format. |
| Subject |
Music fans -- Fiction.
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Middle-aged men -- Fiction.
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Future, The -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Novels in verse. (OCoLC)fst01921724
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Novels in verse.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Guriel, Jason, 1978- Forgotten work. Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, 2020 1771963832 9781771963831 (OCoLC)1150887257 |
| ISBN |
9781771963824 (softcover) |
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1771963824 (softcover) |
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