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A wildly inventive and visually rich collage of twelve interconnected narratives, one for each month of the year, all pertaining to notions of travel--through time, space, narrative, and death
 
The poisoning of the painter Hieronymus Bosch; anchorman Dan Rather’s mysterious mugging on Park Avenue as he strolls home alone one October evening; a series of postcard meditations on the idea of travel from a young American journalist visiting Burma; a husband-and-wife team of fundamentalist Christian suicide bombers; the myth of Iphigenia from Agamemnon’s daughter’s point of view—these and other stories form a mosaic, connected through a pattern of musical motifs, transposed scenes, and recurring characters. It is a narrative about narrativity itself, the human obsession with telling ourselves and our worlds over and over again in an attempt to stabilize a truth that, as Nabokov once said, should only exist within quotation marks.

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  1. Cover Page
  2. pp. 1-2
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  1. Title Page
  2. pp. 3-6
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. September
  2. pp. 1-22
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  1. October
  2. pp. 23-40
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  1. November
  2. pp. 41-72
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  1. December
  2. pp. 73-92
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  1. January
  2. pp. 93-110
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  1. February
  2. pp. 111-132
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  1. March
  2. pp. 133-146
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  1. April
  2. pp. 147-164
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  1. May
  2. pp. 165-192
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  1. June
  2. pp. 193-202
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  1. July
  2. pp. 203-222
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  1. August
  2. pp. 223-254
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  1. July
  2. pp. 255-268
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  1. June
  2. pp. 269-278
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  1. May
  2. pp. 279-296
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  1. April
  2. pp. 297-310
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  1. March
  2. pp. 311-324
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  1. February
  2. pp. 325-338
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  1. January
  2. pp. 339-356
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  1. December
  2. pp. 357-370
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  1. November
  2. pp. 371-408
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  1. October
  2. pp. 409-428
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  1. September
  2. pp. 429-445
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