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Vanishing Point:a Novel
[Paperback - 2004]
david markson
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Category: Religion
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Publisher: Counterpoint | ISBN: 9781593760106 | Pages: 208
Shipping Weight: .215 | Dimensions: 5.53 x .54 x 8.27 inches

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From Wittgenstein's Mistress to Reader's Block to Springer's Progress to This Is Not a Novel, he has delighted and amazed readers for decades. And now comes his latest masterwork, Vanishing Point, wherein an elderly writer (identified only as "Author") sets out to transform shoeboxes crammed with notecards into a novel—and in so doing will dazzle us with an astonishing parade of revelations about the trials and calamities and absurdities and often even tragedies of the creative life—and all the while trying his best (he says) to keep himself out of the tale. Naturally he will fail to do the latter, frequently managing to stand aside and yet remaining undeniably central throughout—until he is swept inevitably into the narrative's starting and shattering climax. A novel of death and laughter both—and of extraordinary intellectual richness.

About the Author

David Markson was an American novelist, born David Merrill Markson in Albany, New York. He is the author of several postmodern novels, includingThis is Not a Novel, Springer's Progress, andWittgenstein's Mistress. His most recent work,The Last Novel, was published in 2007 and received a positive review in theNew York Times, which called it "a real tour de force."Markson's work is characterized by an unconventional approach to narration and plot. While his early works may draw on the modernist tradition of William Faulkner and Malcolm Lowry, Markson says his later novels are "literally crammed with literary and artistic anecdotes" and "nonlinear, discontinuous, collage-like, an assemblage."Dalkey Archive Press has published several of his novels. In December 2006, publishers Shoemaker & Hoard republished two of Markson's early crime novelsEpitaph for a TrampandEpitaph for a Dead Beatin one volume.In addition to his novels, he has published a book of poetry and a critical study of Malcolm Lowry.The movieDirty Dingus Magee, starring Frank Sinatra, is based on Markson's first novel,The Ballad of Dingus Magee, an anti-Western. He wrote three crime novels early in his career.Educated at Union College and Columbia University, Markson began his writing career as a journalist and book editor, periodically taking up work as a college professor at Columbia University, Long Island University, and The New School.Markson died in his New York City, West Village apartment.

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