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Overview
In the tradition of Joe Brainard's "I Remember" and Georges Perec's "Je me souviens," this delightful "novel" offers a thousand answers to the question, "What are you thinking?" (Or, as translator Ian Monk puts it: "Penny for them?") The answers are spontaneous, revealing, ominous, insignificant, grotesque, amusing, lecherous, tragic and trivial by turns, and lovable in their cheerful imperfection. This is a book about the basics: love, sexuality, death, and all the other things that lurk in our everyday thoughts.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781564786364
- ISBN-10: 1564786366
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Publish Date: July 2011
- Dimensions: 8.02 x 5.6 x 0.53 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.51 pounds
- Page Count: 175
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