In this Book
- The Size of the Universe
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
summary
The landscape of this novel in stories—Joseph Cardinale’s first book-length work of fiction—is as familiar as childhood yet beguilingly surreal. The question of whether or not the child in the first fiction and the man in the last story are the same person—and whether any person is the same from one moment to the next—is perhaps the book’s main question.
In prose as spare as it is meticulous, The Size of the Universe conjures an elegant labyrinth of time, space, and memory, in which a wavering self, a self on the verge of becoming nothing, seeks a safe haven from the throes of near-religious ecstasy. It is a debut work that is inviting, perplexing, and bold.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. 2-9
- The Singularity
- pp. 1-14
- The Great Disappointment
- pp. 15-51
- Art in Heaven
- pp. 52-67
- Action at a Distance
- pp. 68-91
- May I Not Seem to Have Lived
- pp. 92-105
- Proportions for the Human Figure
- pp. 106-134
Additional Information
ISBN
9781573668200
Related ISBN(s)
9781573661584
MARC Record
OCLC
785776405
Pages
133
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2010