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Two Jewish brothers growing up in the 1950s Bronx navigate a toxic home environment headed by an emotionally abusive father and an unhappy mother. One brother eventually finds escape through academic achievement and a new life on the west coast, while the other brother remains entangled in the darkness of his existence, his life and mind slowly unraveling. By presenting the conscious and unconscious connections between family members, this experimental novel explores the concept of individuality, the psychological influences of family, and the very nature of reality.
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Translation/foreign publishing rights available.
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Endorsements
"Yes our waking dreams mean divided we stand together: this looping, original, anxiously funny novel a tangle of yearning & frustration and vivid, bold appetite--how can it not find a host of readers."
Joseph McElroy, author of Women and Men and Plus
“With the logic of dream and memory, voice runs along with voice to tell a set of interbraiding tales of brothers and cities in a time everyone will recognize some of, wherein the moments before waking, before sleeping are evoked with wonderfully clean prose . . .”
Samuel R. Delany, author of Dhalgren and the Return to Nevèrÿon series
Reviews
"Stealing can be read as a realistic novel about a dysfunctional family and as a work of experimental fiction in the modernist tradition, elevating the trials of ordinary people into a narrative about freedom and consciousness through art."
Janina Levin, Journal of Modern Literature blog
"Brivic’s effort to shed the mantle of analytical prose in favor of in-your-face realism (sometimes surrealism) in this bumpy, knotty family narrative is heroic..."
Bradley Buchanan, San Francisco Book Review
Author Biography
Shelly Brivic is an internationally recognized James Joyce scholar and a retired university professor. He has written extensively on Joyce and other modernists from the perspective of Lacanian psychology. His most recent scholarly work is Revolutionary Damnation: Badiou and Irish Fiction from Joyce to Enright, published by Syracuse University Press in 2017. Stealing: A Novel in Dreams is his first work of fiction.
Frayed Edge Press
Frayed Edge Press is a small independent publishing house based in Philadelphia. We publish literary fiction and poetry, as well asnon-fiction titles in history and political science. We also publish the Street Smart Series of Short Fiction, consisting of contemporary, urban-set novelette-length works. We especially welcome marginalized voices, both historical and contemporary, including women, people of color, ethnic and religious minorities, the LGBTQ+ community, and progressive political viewpoints. We particularly seek to publish works that wrestle with important questions challenging contemporary society, including political and environmental concerns, civil rights, women's rights, and sustainability.
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- Publisher Frayed Edge Press
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781642510034
- Publication Country or regionUnited States
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 15.95 USD
- Pages260
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2018
- Dimensions9x6 inches
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