Glasshouse
Louis Armand
(Author)
Description
Fiction. Longlisted for The Guardian's 2019 Not the Booker Prize. Set in and around Jardin des Plantes, Paris, Europe, the World, the Universe, Armand's short novel is a whodunit with multiple twists. The setting of the tale against a backdrop of fossils and marvels of taxidermy gives Armand's story a macroscopic dimension. As if the evolution of an entire species could be compressed into several hours of a Sunday morning. As if a tale of a murdered schoolteacher and a vengeful mob could tell of speciation and extinction throughout the evolutionary history of life on Earth. And it can. Armand's deftly written fragmentary narrative is a point-counter-point of silent unheard voices, whose apocalyptic finale eschews euphony in favour of a cacophonous refusal of resolution. "NO END"--loose ends being preferable to final solutions...Product Details
Price
$14.99
$13.94
Publisher
Equus Press
Publish Date
October 01, 2018
Pages
128
Dimensions
4.72 X 7.48 X 0.28 inches | 0.26 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780993195570
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About the Author
Louis Armand was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1972. Since mid-1994 he has lived and worked in Prague, where he teaches seminars at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University and edits the x-poezie chapbook series. His essays, poetry and short prose have been published in journals internationally, as well as in two anthologies: Infernal Cinders (1993) and The Zone (1994). In June 1997 Armand was awarded the Max Harris Prize for poetry at the Penola Festival, in Adelaide. His publications include, Inexorable Weather (Arc Publications), The Garden and Strange Attractors, (both with Salt), and Land Partitions and Malice in Underland (both with Textbase).
