
Sleep
A Utopian Bestiary
Michele Spina(Author)
Dufour Editions (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 8. April 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
127 pages
978-0-8023-1334-8 (ISBN)
Description
"My problem, my central problem, is that I can't sleep...." By turns comic and poignant, brutal and beautiful, Sleep follows an insomniac's long journey to the light through a night of tormenting memories and lucid drunken speculation. A sequence of bizarre encounters with other lonely and despicable denizens of the night -- worms, whores, toads, lantern jaws who wander aimlessly in an unnamed provincial place that it not quite city and not quite country -- leads him to recover some meaning to his life: release from his dead mother's incapacity for love, his yearning for the "first whore, " for the "unknown house, " for sleep.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 219 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
186 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8023-1334-8 (9780802313348)
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