Honest Ghost (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Rick Whitaker | knygos.lt

Aprašymas

"Whitaker proves that fiction is better than life—more interesting, much more thrilling"
— Edmund White

"Rick Whitaker has put the force back into tour de force."
— John Ashbery

"Sheer genius...a uniquely gripping read."
— Jenny Mcphee

"An Honest Ghost is brilliantly conceived and brilliantly performed."
— Adam Phillips

"Whitaker has performed such a work of genius and pushed it ad absurdum"
— Filip Noterdaeme

ABOUT THE BOOK
Rick Whitaker novel, An Honest Ghost, consists entirely of sentences appropriated from over 500 books. Whitaker limited himself to using 300 words per book (in accordance with Fair Use); never taking two sentences together; and never making any changes, even to punctuation. An index includes all attributions. The experience of acknowledging each sentence as literary artifact, combined with the imagined accretion of books that built An Honest Ghost, deftly mirrors the burgeoning nostalgia in the narrator’s voice and, most fittingly, in the careful reader’s heart.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rick Whitaker is the author of Assuming the Position: A Memoir of Hustling and The First Time I Met Frank O'Hara: Reading Gay American Writers. He is Concerts and Theatre Manager of The Italian Academy at Columbia University, New York.