Rooted in the western United States in the decade post-9/11, theMystery.doc follows a young writer and his wife as he attempts to write his second book, a national epic he hopes will last forever, and as he searches for a form that will express the world as it has become, revealing the interconnectedness of all our lives. Pop-up ads, internet search results, spam, lines of code, frames of film and television mix with canonical works of literature, alchemical manuscripts, transcripts of personal conversations, and the story of a man who wakes up one morning not knowing who he is, a blank document called themystery.doc newly appeared on his computer.
Part love story, part prose poem, part documentary, part existential whodunit, part future-fiction, part Bildungsroman, part memoir, theMystery.doc is about the quest to find something lasting in a world where everything is in danger of slipping away. Love, loss, birth, death, technology, terrorism and the American Dream come together to form a great symphonic work that dazzles in both its structure and in its deep emotional resonance.
| ISBN: | 9781611856200 |
| Publication date: | 5th October 2017 |
| Author: | Matthew McIntosh |
| Publisher: | Grove Press UK an imprint of Atlantic Books |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 1664 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Internet browsers |
Rooted in the western United States in the decade post-9/11, theMystery.doc follows a young writer and his wife as he attempts to write his second book, a national epic he hopes will last forever, and as he searches for a form that will express the world as it has become, revealing the interconnectedness of all our lives. Pop-up ads, internet search results, spam, lines of code, frames of film and television mix with canonical works of literature, alchemical manuscripts, transcripts of personal conversations, and the story of a man who wakes up one morning not knowing who he is, a blank document called themystery.doc newly appeared on his computer.
TheMystery.doc features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Internet browsers
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TheMystery.doc was written by Matthew McIntosh and published by Grove Press UK an imprint of Atlantic Books
TheMystery.doc has 1,664 pages
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