{"product_id":"the-strike-harvey-thomlinson-9780692999448","title":"The Strike","description":"As a stylist, Thomlinson aims high, with goals that recall modernists such as James Joyce and Virginia Wolfe: writers concerned with the complex juxtaposition of interior thought and external reality. The novel's pyrotechnic language serves primarily as a window into the minds of his characters. -- LA Review of BooksGround breaking and important...should become one of the most analyzed techniques in literary fiction.-- Experimental WritingThis unconventional text while reminiscent of the Dadaists word games, experimental poetry, and William Burroughs's work using cut-ups is, in the end, a unique entity unto itself...-- Ray FracalossyThe Strike vividly explores a season of crisis in the lives of Old Yu and Little Xu, two outsiders in an ice-bound Chinese border town riven by an illegal strike. Caught up in the upheaval, guilt-ridden Old Yu embarks on a reckless journey to find the rebellious woman he betrayed, before it's too late. Meanwhile, lonely young drifter Little Xu enters into a dangerous relationship with a stranger on the run.The Strike stands out as a novel that is both experimental and dealing realistically with real world events in an engaged way. The new use of syntax the novel pioneers is a method the author, a translator, uses to shake up the synapses of readers in a way that can deliver new perspectives on the nature of reality. Linguists and psychologists, literary critics and readers will find this to be a stunning new revelation of possibility.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvey Thomlinson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0692999442\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780692999448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lucid Play Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/23\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d","brand":"Harvey Thomlinson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43925715943679,"sku":"9780692999448","price":8.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_c2a47a43-60dc-41df-8e32-7f6ee36492ca.jpg?v=1681078925","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-strike-harvey-thomlinson-9780692999448","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}