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It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

By Anne de Marcken

It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over LGBTQ+

It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

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CO-WINNER OF THE NOVEL PRIZE WINNER OF THE URSULA K. LE GUIN PRIZE WINNER OF THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD WINNER OF A PACIFIC NORTHWEST BOOK AWARD This third perspective on myself is disconcerting.  The heroine of the spare and haunting It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, she notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. And even if she has forgotten her name and much of what connects her to her humanity, she remembers with an implacable and nearly unbearable longing the place where she knew herself and was known-where she loved and was loved. Traveling across the landscapes of time and of space, heading always west, and carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest, our undead narrator encounters and loses parts of her body and her self in one terrifying, hilarious, and heartbreaking situation after another.  A bracing writer of great nerve and verve, Anne de Marcken bends reality (and the reader's mind) with throwaway assurance. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over plumbs mortality and how it changes everything, except possibly love. Delivering a near-Beckettian whopping to the reader's imagination, this is one of the sharpest and funniest novels of recent years, a tale for our dispossessed times.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
160
Release Date:
2024-03-05
Publication Date:
2024-03-05
Publisher:
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0811237850
ISBN13:
9780811237857
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
162 g
Height:
123 cm
Width:
199 cm
Thickness:
11 cm
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