The Book of Beginnings and Endings

ISBN-10: 1932511555
ISBN-13: 9781932511550
Category: Literary Collections / Essays
Pages: 57
Language: English
Published: 2007
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Author: Jenny Boully

Description

"How does the story begin? How does it end? This is what 'The book of beginnings and endings' will tell you, but nothing more. The middle - meandering along with its arguments, segues, denouement - isn't there. These are beginnings that wave goodbye with the door flung wide open, endings that open in media res. Throwing her voice in a feat of lyrical ventriloquism, Jenny Boully tunes into every station to open or close more than fifty books ranging in subject matter from physics and astronomy to literary theory and love. An amazing thing happens when we read these snippets of invented prose, be it an introduction to invertebrate zoology, a "heuristic account of what is at stake", or the biography of a deceased writer. We are jolted, unhitched, and gradually won over by the author's sense of wonder and loss. 'The book of beginnings and endings' is brilliant, innovative, and most of all, deeply affecting." -- book cover.

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