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Title Statement | The strange truth about us: a novel of absence / M.A.C. Farrant. |
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Author | Farrant, M. A. C.(Marion Alice Coburn), 1947- |
Publication | Vancouver: Talonbooks, c2011. |
Extent of Item | 215 p. |
ISBN | 0889226687 (pbk.) 9780889226685 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 2220868 |
Contents | Annotations about an absence : going forward -- Woman records brief notes regarding absence : benchmarking -- Other prose surrounding absence. |
Summary | A three-part novel-length work of prose fragments, including a series of 115 annotations to the ruminations of a retired couple living in a gated community in which they express their fears about the future, a series of notes to these annotations, and 27 prose pieces that take aim at a globalized world bludgeoned by the threat of "end times". |
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By Topic | Retirees--Fiction |
Fear--Fiction | |
End of the world--Fiction | |
By Genre | Satire |
Experimental fiction |