Castro Jordan - The Novelist A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: In Jordan Castro's inventive funny and surprisingly tender first novel we follow a young man over the course of a single morning as he tries and fails to write an autobiographical novel finding himself instead drawn into the infinite spaces of Twitter quotidian rituals and his own mind. The act of making coffee prompts a reflection on the limits of self - knowledge; an editor's embarrassing tweet sparks rage at the literary establishment; a meditation on first person versus third examines choice and action; an Instagram post about the ethics of having children triggers mimetic rivalry; the act of doing the dishes is at once ordinary and profound: one of the many small commitments that make up a life of stability. The Novelist: A Novel pays tribute to Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine and Thomas Bernhard's Woodcutters but in the end is a wholly original novel about language and consciousness the internet and social media and addiction and recovery.
Title: The Novelist A Novel
Author(s): Castro Jordan
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Barcode: 9781593767259
Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Date: 7/18/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction