{"product_id":"aunt-rachels-fur-raymond-federman-9781573660938","title":"Aunt Rachel's Fur","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpirals into a temporal abyss as the author rummages in old memories tattooed with cabbages, plump breasts, and the Final Solution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eAunt Rachel's Fur, \u003c\/i\u003e Raymond Federman--French by birth, American by adoption, Jew by memory--plays with the language of his childhood to construct a story from digressions. Federman's narrative spirals into a temporal abyss as he rummages in old memories tattooed with cabbages, plump breasts, and the Final Solution. His book swirls with the narrative innovations that mark him as a leading experimental surfictioneer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAunt Rachel's Fur\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about its own telling, an intimate meeting between voice and reader, in which flesh and blood are reduced to fiction, and fiction, by its telling, becomes fact. Reymond Namredef, a French expatriate, has returned to France after a disastrous decade in America, with 365 boxes of pasta and the hope of publishing his novel about a novelist. In a cafe in Paris, he meets a \"professional listener,\" and, through a series of conversations, offers a loose account of his life that shows little respect for chronology. His story is woven of fragments, branching out over a lifetime and capturing the alchemy of fiction and memory. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Faced with the chaos of the twentieth century, Federman finds humanity in the absurd. Like novelists Mark Amerika and Ronald Sukenick, he skewers literary convention and pushes the boundary of postmodernism. \u003ci\u003eAunt Rachel's Fur\u003c\/i\u003e is both a tribute to his love of the word--the story as it is told--and a further exploration of our understanding of fiction. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Raymond Federman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1573660930\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781573660938\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e F2c\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/11\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.59w x 0.73d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/12\/2001 pg. 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2001 pg. 436\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/07\/2001 pg. 93\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/11\/2001","brand":"Raymond Federman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47425332281599,"sku":"9781573660938","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_13e88ef5-f26a-41ed-9679-b6e87c5f56e9.jpg?v=1761538504","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/aunt-rachels-fur-raymond-federman-9781573660938","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}