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245 10 a| Year of the rath| [electronic resource] /c| Marc Anthony Richardson.;

260 a| Tuscaloosa :b| FC2,c| [2016];

300 a| 225 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 22 cm;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-225).;

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520 a| "Winner of FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize In The Year of the Rat, an artist returns to the dystopian city of his birth to tend to his invalid mother, only to find himself torn apart by memories and longings. Narrated by this nameless figure whose rants, reveries, and Rabelaisian escapades take him on a Dantesque descent into himself, the story follows him and his mother as they share a one-bedroom apartment over the course of a year. Despite his mother's precarious health, the lingering memories of a lost love, an incarcerated sibling, a repressed sexuality, and an anarchic inability to support himself, he pursues his dream of becoming an avant-garde artist. His prospects grow dim until a devastating death provides a painful and unforeseeable opportunity. With a voice that is poetic and profane, ethereal and irreverent, cyclical and succinct, he roams from vignette to vignette, creating a polyphonic patchwork quilt of a family portrait"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Year of the rat / Marc Anthony Richardson.

Author/creator	Richardson, Marc Anthony, 1972-
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Tuscaloosa : FC2, [2016]
Description	225 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Public Library Complete
Subjects	Artists--Fiction. Mothers and sons--Fiction. Self-perception--Fiction. Opportunity--Fiction.

Abstract	"Winner of FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize In The Year of the Rat, an artist returns to the dystopian city of his birth to tend to his invalid mother, only to find himself torn apart by memories and longings. Narrated by this nameless figure whose rants, reveries, and Rabelaisian escapades take him on a Dantesque descent into himself, the story follows him and his mother as they share a one-bedroom apartment over the course of a year. Despite his mother's precarious health, the lingering memories of a lost love, an incarcerated sibling, a repressed sexuality, and an anarchic inability to support himself, he pursues his dream of becoming an avant-garde artist. His prospects grow dim until a devastating death provides a painful and unforeseeable opportunity. With a voice that is poetic and profane, ethereal and irreverent, cyclical and succinct, he roams from vignette to vignette, creating a polyphonic patchwork quilt of a family portrait"-- Provided by publisher.
Abstract	"In the novel, Year of the Rat by Marc Anthony Richardson, an artist returns to the city of his birth to tend to his invalid mother, only to find himself torn apart by memories and longings. Narrated by this nameless figure whose rants, reveries, and Rabelaisian escapades take him on a Dantesque descent into himself, the story follows him and his mother as they share a one-bedroom apartment over the course of a year"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-225).
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2016023937
ISBN	9781573660570 (paperback)

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