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Hearing
by Jael
Joyce Elbrecht and Lydia Fakundiny
Library of American Fiction,
Terrace Books
Publication date: January 2006
350 pp. 6 x 9
ISBN 0-299-21300-5 Cloth $24.95
Reviews:
[Reviews will be posted here soon.]
Blurbs:
""Hearing is innovative
and experimental in all of the best ways. At the heart of this
lush labyrinthine novel are a series of mysteries . . .undulating
through coil after coil of concentric circles, drawing readers
in, asking them to become part of the story by hearing (and re-hearing)
it. An exciting and beautifully rendered novel."—Andrea
A. Lunsford, coauthor of Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives
on Collaborative Writing
"This comedy of lost causes fortuitously recovered,
peoples joined, and houses fallen and passionately recovered
poses a challenge to the South's familiar story of patriarchy
lamed in its descendants by blood guilt and racial conflict.
Hearing is a book about terror and ruin that is, curiously, never
far from festival at any point."—Stuart Davis, Cornell
University
"An extraordinary work of fiction,
told with a rare combination of ripe humor and intellectual acuity.
From its continually engaging dialogue through its fascinating,
sometimes very funny, at other times deeply moving narratives
to its profound philosophic rumination, this is a remarkable
accomplishment."—Holly A. Laird, author of Women
Coauthors and editor of Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature
"As a writer, I especially relished
the questions Hearing raises about narrative truth and
the processes involved in the construction of meaning in today's
mediated reality. This novel is rich in insights that speak directly
to our time-through the minds and hearts of its characters we
come to see our times and ourselves differently."—Nancy
Venable Raine, author of After Silence
Authors'
Bio:
Joyce Elbrecht and Lydia Fakundiny,
whose collaborative persona is Jael B. Juba, live and work in
Ithaca, New York. Their first coauthored novel was The Restorationist.
Praise for
The Restorationist:
"This witty, labyrinthine postmodernist kaleidoscope is,
among other things, a complex murder mystery, a feminist discourse,
and a metafictional riff on the possibilities of language and
imagination. With referents ranging from Freud to Foucault to
Greek myth and Hamlet, the text, a dazzling riot of exfoliating
prose, deconstructs eros, selves, and archetypes as it probes
such themes as the trivialization of desire in a consumerist
culture and the loss of individuality within a group."—Publishers
Weekly
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publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu
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