{"product_id":"michael-martone-michael-martone-9781573661263","title":"Michael Martone: Fictions","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA giddy exploration of the parts of books nobody ever reads\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Martone, \u003c\/i\u003e by Michael Martone, continues the author's giddy exploration of the parts of books nobody ever reads. \u003ci\u003eMichael Martone\u003c\/i\u003e is its own appendix, comprising fifty \"contributors notes,\" each of which identifies in exorbitant biographical detail the author of the other forty-nine. Full of fanciful anecdotes and preposterous reminiscences, Martone's self-inventions include the multiple deaths of himself and all his family members, his Kafkaesque rebirth as a giant insect, and his stints as circus performer, assembly-line worker, photographer, and movie extra. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Expect no autobiographical consistency here. A note revealing Martone's mother as the ghost-writer of all his books precedes the note beginning, \"Michael Martone, an orphan . . . \" We learn of Martone's university career and sketchy formal education, his misguided caretaking of his teacher John Barth's lawn, and his impersonation of a poor African republic in political science class, where Martone's population is allowed to starve as his more fortunate fellow republics fight over development and natural resource trading-cards. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The author of \u003ci\u003eMichael Martone, \u003c\/i\u003e whose other names include Missy, Dolly, Peanut, Bug, Gigi-tone, Tony's boy, Patty's boy, Junior's, Mickey, Monk, Mr. Martone, and \"the contributor named in this note,\" proves as Protean as fiction itself, continuously transforming the past with every new attribution but never identifying himself by name. It is this missing personage who, from first note to last, constitutes the unformed subject of Michael Martone. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Martone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1573661260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781573661263\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e F2c\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.52h x 5.58w x 0.61d","brand":"Michael Martone","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44149629812991,"sku":"9781573661263","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9c1a5a6c-1d04-49d1-9681-54c7cc1a2570.jpg?v=1688457716","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/michael-martone-michael-martone-9781573661263","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}