Spells
A Novel Within Photographs
$45.98
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
9 May 2017
Summary
Twenty years ago, while working as a security guard in an art museum, Peter Rock staved off the job’s inherent boredom and loneliness by trying to make up a story for each photograph, painting and object in the museum. A few years ago, reminded of the pleasures and play that he felt in danger of forgetting, he began to envision a similar project.As he explains, “First, I found photographers whose work I was drawn to, and contacted them with a very hypothetical and tentative description of wh…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781619029002 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1619029006 |
| Author: | Peter Rock |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint |
| Imprint: | Counterpoint |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 9 May 2017 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 215mm x 171mm |
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Critics Review
“Rock’s prose calls to mind Kazuo Ishiguro, not just for its spareness but also for its mix of wonder and creepiness.” –New York Times “Peter Rock (is) a master at making strange behavior and strange situations utterly believable and filling them with unbearable suspense.” –Ursula K. Le Guin
About The Author
Peter Rock
Peter Rock was born and raised in Salt Lake City. His most recent novel is The Shelter Cycle. He is also the author of the novels My Abandonment, This Is the Place, Carnival Wolves, The Bewildered, and The Ambidextrist, and a story collection, The Unsettling. Rock attended Deep Springs College, received a BA in English from Yale University, and held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. He has taught fiction at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Deep Springs College, and in the MFA program at San Francisco State University. His stories and freelance writing have both appeared and been anthologized widely, and his books published in various countries and languages. The recipient of a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, an Alex Award and others, he currently resides in Portland, Oregon, where he is a Professor in the English Department of Reed College.
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