عنوان

Indivisible /

(Number (ISBN

1584350091

(Number (ISBN

9781584350095

Number

b759127

Title Proper

Indivisible /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Fanny Howe.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Los Angeles, Ca. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Semiotext(e),

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2000]

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2000

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

283 pages ;

Dimensions

18 cm.

Series Title

Semiotext(e) native agents

Text of Note

A novel.

Text of Note

In the white winter sun -- Through the eyes of the other -- A crackle of static -- Sewing wings for swans -- The Hindu orange of the fruit -- Two sides of a crib -- The light over the heavy door -- A vault with a red stain -- Wishing around the edges -- The glass that grew -- None can go beyond -- Tense -- Sneak away to meditate.

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Text of Note

Henny's life spans the tempestuous multi-racial world of hipsters and activists in working-class Boston during the 60s and its subsequent fall-out. On the verge of religious conversion, Henny, the book's narrator, locks her husband McCool in a closet so that she might talk better to God. Then she proceeds to make peace with the dead by telling their stories. Lewis, Henny's true love, is a wheelchair-bound black activist and political journalist whose working-class mother is jailed when the group's cache of explosives is found in her home. Then there's their wealthy friend Libby, who crosses the globe in search of enlightenment and spiritual peace. Guiding these characters on their journey are figures as divergent as Nietzsche and Bambi, Marx and St. John of the Cross. As Christopher Martin writes in Rain Taxi, Henny's function as a narrator is to hoist the entire structure of the novel onto her brittle, uneven shoulders and deliver all the embarrassing facts directly to us, her reader/God -- only then do we realize the full breadth and beauty of the narrative Howe has surreptitiously constructed all along.

Title

Indivisible.

Alcoholics' spouses-- Massachusetts-- Boston, Fiction.

Foster children-- Massachusetts-- Boston, Fiction.

Musicians, Fiction.

Mysticism, Fiction.

Women in the motion picture industry-- Massachusetts-- Boston, Fiction.

Alcoholics' spouses.

Foster children.

Musicians.

Mysticism.

Women in the motion picture industry.

Massachusetts, Boston.

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Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Howe, Fanny

Date of Transaction

20201204190337.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

rda

Electronic name

[Book]

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