Book Description
Twelve narratives, twelve narrators, twelve genres and twelve fictional worlds collide to spectacular effect in Paul Glennon"s The Dodecahedron, or a Frame for Frames. The second book from the author of How Did You Sleep?takes his adventures in short fiction to strange new regions, where professional polygamists, heretical alcoholics and hallucinating arctic explorers find themselves sharing plot points, character traits and dialogue.
At turns philosophical and farcical, The Dodecahedron makes for intriguing, compelling reading. Each of the book"s twelve chapters has its own style and apparent fictional autonomy, but every narrative finds itself corroborated or undermined by the next. Messages found in bottles, computer-generated dialogues and the lamentations of the world"s last genie shouldn"t have much in common, but their paths constantly intersect in The Dodecahedron, creating networks of allusions and contradictions. The Dodecahedron revels in the art of story making and proves once and for all that the geometry of the dodecahedron is a rich source of comic fiction.
Praise for Paul Glennon"s How Did You Sleep?
`A Solid foundation of deadpan absurdity" -- Quill & Quire
`This bird"s song is complex, refreshing and previously unknown" -- The Globe and Mail
`Enough whimsy, absurdity and intangible weirdness to satisfy the most outlandish tastes" -- National Post Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Dodecahedron Or a Frame for Frames (Paul Glennon)