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PublisherCounterpoint Press

ISBN-101593760213

ISBN-139781593760212

eBay Product ID (ePID)30254584

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Book TitleOdd Corners : the Slip-Stream World of William Hjortsberg

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicShort Stories (Single Author), General

Publication Year2004

GenreFiction

AuthorWilliam Hjortsberg

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight13 Oz

Item Length7 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2005-271339

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisIn 1971, when William Hjortsberg first published Gray Matters , reviewers mentioned Borges. And in 1972 came Symbiography , a novella about a man who dreams for a living. He is, in fact, a best-selling dreamer. Before "Mad Max" (1979) and Neuromancer (1984), back in the days when reality was either "real" or chemical, Hjortsberg sat about to create a post-holocaust fiction, (mis-termed, we think, "science" fiction), that anticipates the Virtual, the Punk, and the Meta. In The New York Times , John Leonard called him "a satanic S.J. Perelman . . . by way of Disney and de Sade," and Harry Crews, also in The Times , continued, "He writes fiction the way Leroy Jordan plays football-with controlled abandon-which is to say, with the abandon that only the greatest discipline can release." As readers it is thrilling to realize how perfectly timed this work is for our day, fresher even, somehow, than it was thirty years ago. Odd Corners collects Gray Matters and Symbiography together with two stories never before in book form, a complete cyberworld, courtesy of William Hjorstberg., In 1971, when William Hjortsberg first published Gray Matters, reviewers mentioned Borges. And in 1972 came Symbiography, a novella about a man who dreams for a living. He is in fact a best-selling dreamer. Before Mad Max (1979) and Neuromancer (1984), back in the days when reality was either "real" or chemical, Hjortsberg set about to create a post-holocaust fiction, (mis-termed, we think, "science" fiction), that anticipates the Virtual, the Punk, and the Meta. As readers it is thrilling to realize how perfectly timed this work is for our day, fresher even, somehow, than it was thirty years ago. Odd Corners collects Gray Matters and Symbiography together with two stories never before in book form. It is a complete cyberworld, courtesy of William Hjorstberg., In 1971, when William Hjortsberg first published Gray Matters, reviewers mentioned Borges. And in 1972 came Symbiography, a novella about a man who dreams for a living. He is, in fact, a best-selling dreamer. Before "Mad Max" (1979) and Neuromancer (1984), back in the days when reality was either "real" or chemical, Hjortsberg sat about to create a post-holocaust fiction, (mis-termed, we think, "science" fiction), that anticipates the Virtual, the Punk, and the Meta. In The New York Times, John Leonard called him "a satanic S.J. Perelman . . . by way of Disney and de Sade," and Harry Crews, also in The Times, continued, "He writes fiction the way Leroy Jordan plays football--with controlled abandon--which is to say, with the abandon that only the greatest discipline can release." As readers it is thrilling to realize how perfectly timed this work is for our day, fresher even, somehow, than it was thirty years ago. Odd Corners collects Gray Matters and Symbiography together with two stories never before in book form, a complete cyberworld, courtesy of William Hjorstberg., In 1971, when William Hjortsberg first published Gray Matters , reviewers mentioned Borges. And in 1972 came Symbiography , a novella about a man who dreams for a living. He is, in fact, a best-selling dreamer. Before "Mad Max" (1979) and Neuromancer (1984), back in the days when reality was either "real" or chemical, Hjortsberg sat about to create a post-holocaust fiction, (mis-termed, we think, "science" fiction), that anticipates the Virtual, the Punk, and the Meta. In The New York Times , John Leonard called him "a satanic S.J. Perelman . . . by way of Disney and de Sade," and Harry Crews, also in The Times , continued, "He writes fiction the way Leroy Jordan plays football--with controlled abandon--which is to say, with the abandon that only the greatest discipline can release." As readers it is thrilling to realize how perfectly timed this work is for our day, fresher even, somehow, than it was thirty years ago. Odd Corners collects Gray Matters and Symbiography together with two stories never before in book form, a complete cyberworld, courtesy of William Hjorstberg.

LC Classification NumberPS3558.J6O33 2004