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PublisherInterlink Publishing Group, Incorporated

ISBN-101566567793

ISBN-139781566567794

eBay Product ID (ePID)71729308

Product Key Features

Book TitleMaster of the Eclipse

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2009

TopicCultural Heritage, Short Stories (Single Author), General, Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorEtel Adnan

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight8.8 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2008-052435

ReviewsPrecisely observed tales of love, loss, exile and other quotidian matters from Lebanese-American poet/novelist Adnan... [C]areful, impeccably chosen language. Discerns whole worlds in little slices of life.

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisWhat are poets for in these destitute times? Etel Adnan asks through Houmlet;lderlin's voice, and then answers in prose through her own. It is a prose of uncanny elegance and skepticism and conscience which voices what chokes us into silence, as it asks: what do we make of our tourists of war-professors, directors, journalists-and whom do we imagine for their subjects? How do we re-name, as if the facts call for us to be astonished, "the beings wearing bulletproof jackets," the masters playing the empathy card with their victims, the stateless living among the over-stated? Book jacket., A new collection of stories about displacement, love, loss, poetry and war, from the Lebanese poet and painter who has been called "arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab-American author writing today" (Melus) The stories in Master of the Eclipse are populated by filmmakers, poets, girls, professors, and prostitutes who live in Beirut, Paris, Sicily, California, Saddam's Iraq, and New York. The world of these stories is ours, with the same occupations and wars--a "world that would be a cemetery" were it not also a place where taxis are "yellow flowers floating down the avenues." From the collection's title story, a long meditation on history and war, power and poetry, to its concluding tale, a strangely quiet vision of a tree floating in a Damascus stream, Etel Adnan's painterly vision, her cosmopolitan flexibility, and her philosophical bent are on full display. This is a woman, after all, trained in philosophy at the Sorbonne, Harvard, and the University of California at Berkeley, who became a painter, and then a poet. Her voice comes to us as something the opposite of her title: She is a master of light and revelation, of language, variety, and color.

LC Classification NumberPS3551.D65M37 2009