The art of fiction /
"In this his eighth collection (and fifth with Four Way Books), Prufer's career-spanning talent for estranging the familiar-and also for recording the unthinkable with eerie directness-recurs, enhanced and transformed by the collection's meta-level attention to the role of fiction in...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Tribeca, [New York, New York] :
Four Way Books,
[2021]
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| Summary: | "In this his eighth collection (and fifth with Four Way Books), Prufer's career-spanning talent for estranging the familiar-and also for recording the unthinkable with eerie directness-recurs, enhanced and transformed by the collection's meta-level attention to the role of fiction in our civic lives. Prufer describes, often through personae, a near future, tracing there the political gambit of Fake News and the role of the imagination in our self-understanding (whether it's cogent or delusional). Via both satire and direct address (to the point of reader-squeamishness), Prufer aims to understand the ugly-casual atmosphere of our often racialized, pervasive distrust. The Art of Fiction fundamentally understands that fictions are deployed to divide us, and they work: they get under our skin. Prufer powerfully explores the roles of imagination and art in how we explain ourselves to ourselves"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 120 pages ; 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781945588723 1945588721 |