{"product_id":"the-razors-edge-karl-jirgens-9780889844506","title":"The Razor's Edge","description":"\u003cp\u003e Unwillingly, I've become part of the story. Questions lie when reconstructing incomplete facts, half-truths, enigmas. What remains is incompletion, interruption. Only the dead know what happened.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Razor's Edge\u003c\/i\u003e, Karl Jirgens presents a collection of interlinked fictions that inhabit halfway worlds between past and present, dream and actuality, science and divination. Ordinary daily activities and events lead to unexpected slides into lucid dreams and flirtations with the edge of madness. Drawing on literature and pop culture (from Cinderella and Hamlet to Vladimir Mayakovsky and Anthony Bourdain) as well as the history of twentieth-century genocides (including the Holocaust and the Gulag), these complex, magic realist stories suggest that what seems separate is really interconnected, that the distinction between past, present and future is illusion, and that we might all die of the truth if the truth were truly known.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karl Jirgens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 088984450X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780889844506\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Porcupine's Quill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/26\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Karl Jirgens","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054322413823,"sku":"9780889844506","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_badc476f-5dab-4b0c-82ab-8498ee57cb6f.jpg?v=1685029285","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-razors-edge-karl-jirgens-9780889844506","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}