Double Negative by Vladislavic, Ivan

Double Negative (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781908276261)

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Double Negative by Vladislavic, Ivan

Double Negative

$15.95
Double Negative by Vladislavic, Ivan

Double Negative

$15.95
Format: Paperback
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Dropout Neville Lister accompanies acclaimed photographer Saul Auerbach for a day, to learn a lesson for life. They play a game: from a hill above Johannesburg they pick three houses and decide to knock on their doors in search of a story. Auerbach's images of the first two will become classic portraits, but soon the light fades. Lister only reaches the third house decades later, returning to post-apartheid South Africa and a Johannesburg altered almost beyond recognition. How to live when estranged from your birthplace? What do you lose when you are no longer lost?

Double Negative is a subtle triptych that captures the ordinary life of Neville Lister during South Africa's extraordinary revolution. Ivan Vladislavic lays moments side by side like photographs on a table. He lucidly portrays a city and its many lives through reflections on memory, art and what we should really be looking for.



Author: Ivan Vladislavic
ISBN-10: 1908276266
ISBN-13: 9781908276261
Publisher: And Other Stories
Language: English
Published: 11/12/2013
Pages: 245
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/22/2013
Foreword 11/30/2013
By Ivan Vladislavic
By Ivan Vladislavic
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IVAN VLADISLAVIC is the author of the novels The Folly, The Restless Supermarket, The Exploded View and Double Negative. The last of these appeared initially in TJ/Double Negative, a joint project with the photographer David Goldblatt. Vladislavić has written extensively about Johannesburg, notably in Portrait with Keys (2006). He has edited volumes on architecture and art, and published a monograph on the conceptual artist Willem Boshoff. The compendium volume Flashback Hotel (2010) gathered together his early stories. Recent books are The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories, a reflection on writing and other things, and A Labour of Moles, a small comedy of meanings illustrated by Ornan Rotem. His work has won the Sunday Times Fiction Prize, the Alan Paton Award and the University of Johannesburg Prize, while TJ/Double Negative received the 2011 Kraszna-Krausz Award for best photography book.

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