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Year of the Rat (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781573660570)
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x2017 American Book Award Winner
Winner of the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize Marc Anthony Richardson's Year of the Rat is a poignant and riveting literary debut narrated in an unabashedly exuberant voice. In Year of the Rat, an artist returns to the dystopian city of his birth to tend to his invalid mother only to find himself torn apart by memories and longings. Narrated by this nameless figure whose rants, reveries, and Rabelaisian escapades take him on a Dantesque descent into himself, the story follows him and his mother as they share a one-bedroom apartment over the course of a year. Despite his mother's precarious health, the lingering memories of a lost love, an incarcerated sibling, a repressed sexuality, and an anarchic inability to support himself, he pursues his dream of becoming an avant-garde artist. His prospects grow dim until a devastating death provides a painful and unforeseeable opportunity. With a voice that is poetic and profane, ethereal and irreverent, cyclical and succinct, he roams from vignette to vignette, creating a polyphonic patchwork quilt of a family portrait.
Author: Marc Anthony Richardson
ISBN-10: 1573660574
ISBN-13: 9781573660570
Publisher: F2c
Language: English
Published: 09/27/2016
Pages: 236
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/17/2016
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2016
Winner of the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize Marc Anthony Richardson's Year of the Rat is a poignant and riveting literary debut narrated in an unabashedly exuberant voice. In Year of the Rat, an artist returns to the dystopian city of his birth to tend to his invalid mother only to find himself torn apart by memories and longings. Narrated by this nameless figure whose rants, reveries, and Rabelaisian escapades take him on a Dantesque descent into himself, the story follows him and his mother as they share a one-bedroom apartment over the course of a year. Despite his mother's precarious health, the lingering memories of a lost love, an incarcerated sibling, a repressed sexuality, and an anarchic inability to support himself, he pursues his dream of becoming an avant-garde artist. His prospects grow dim until a devastating death provides a painful and unforeseeable opportunity. With a voice that is poetic and profane, ethereal and irreverent, cyclical and succinct, he roams from vignette to vignette, creating a polyphonic patchwork quilt of a family portrait.
Author: Marc Anthony Richardson
ISBN-10: 1573660574
ISBN-13: 9781573660570
Publisher: F2c
Language: English
Published: 09/27/2016
Pages: 236
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/17/2016
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2016
By Marc Anthony Richardson
xMarc Anthony Richardson received his MFA from Mills College. He is an artist and writer from Philadelphia. Year of the Rat is his debut novel.
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