Peru

Name: Peru
Brand: Dalkey Archive Press
SKU: 9781564788023
Price: 1750 KES
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ISBN: 9781564788023

by Gordon Lish

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1564788024

ISBN-13 9781564788023

Publisher Dalkey Archive Press

Imprint Dalkey Archive Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 18th, 2013

Print length 191 Pages

Weight 270 grams

Dimensions 16.10 x 20.40 x 1.60 cms

Product Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Arguably Gordon Lish's masterpiece, Peru begins with its narrator announcing, "There is nothing which I will not tell you if I can think of it." Gradually, the story of a dark childhood secret-real or imagined-unfolds: in 1940, six-year-old Gordon murdered his harelipped rival, Steven Adinoff, in a Long Island sandbox... (unless he didn't). Peru's narrator weaves together strands of disconnected, mesmerizing trivia, resurrecting memories of the mundane suburban childhood that spawned a killing: the sense of tedium on an endless summer day; the squishy sounds of a hoe digging into flesh. Ambiguous, complex, inventive, and subversively comic, Peru is a compendium of unnerving observations about memory, violence, obsession, and the potential horror behind the facade of an ordinary life.

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