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- 9781555978471
- EAN
- 9781555978471
- Book Title
- Machine : a Novel
- Item Length
- 8.3in
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Literary
- Item Width
- 5.4in
- Item Weight
- 7.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 144 Pages
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A haunting story of guilt and blame in the wake of a drowning, the first novel by the author of Spectacle Susan Steinberg's first novel, Machine , is a dazzling and innovative leap forward for a writer whose most recent book, Spectacle , gained her a rapturous following. Machine revolves around a group of teenagers--both locals and wealthy out-of-towners--during a single summer at the shore. Steinberg captures the pressures and demands of this world in a voice that effortlessly slides from collective to singular, as one girl recounts a night on which another girl drowned. Hoping to assuage her guilt and evade a similar fate, she pieces together the details of this tragedy, as well as the breakdown of her own family, and learns that no one, not even she, is blameless. A daring stylist, Steinberg contrasts semicolon-studded sentences with short lines that race down the page. This restless approach gains focus and power through a sharply drawn narrative that ferociously interrogates gender, class, privilege, and the disintegration of identity in the shadow of trauma. Machine is the kind of novel--relentless and bold--that only Susan Steinberg could have written.
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Graywolf Press
ISBN-10
1555978479
ISBN-13
9781555978471
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26038392291
Product Key Features
Book Title
Machine : a Novel
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literary
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
7.1 Oz
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Reviews
"Steinberg's daring experiments with style and perspective make clear that such stock suspense isn't the point. The narrator's real quest is to discover whether a soul--hers, if it exists--can be saved." -- The Atlantic "Steinberg's beautifully structured sentences and wholly original stylistic decisions give Machine a delicate intricacy that enhances the depth of the plot." -- San Francisco Chronicle "The narrative shifts, experimental structure and poetic language in Steinberg's hypnotic first novel capture the teen years with their shifting emotional tides and heightened awareness of class, gender, self and others." -- BBC Culture "Stylish and innovative. . . . The semicolon is one of the most sophisticated yet poorly understood pieces of punctuation. . . . A prolific and graceful user of this oft-avoided punctuation mark, Steinberg employs it to lyrical and layered effect." -- Star Tribune (Minneapolis) "After making waves with her book Spectacle , bold stylist Susan Steinberg resurfaces with her first novel, a tale of gender, class, privilege and trauma set during a summer at the shore. . . . The narrative grapples with guilt and blame while eschewing formal conventions." -- Chicago Tribune "Susan Steinberg takes everything you loved about her short story collections ( Spectacle , anyone?) and brings them to this new tragedy: a hazy summer night in which one girl drowned. The voice of the story--sometimes singular, sometimes with other echoes--will guide and haunt you as it tries to make sense of what happened." -- Literary Hub "Steinberg's writing sinks its teeth in down to the bone and refuses to release." -- Chicago Review of Books "Peril, fury, suspicion, rebellion--Steinberg's craft lies in accumulating these moods and sustaining them. . . . It's a bold and challenging way to make a book, to trust the reader to sit still for her own impalement. But the risk pays off. Machine embodies a new kind of novel in verse, a creature that's part stutter and part song, and its stark, strange melody echoes long after its musicians have packed up and gone home." -- On the Seawal l "Steinberg writes in small, interconnected, and poetic fragments. . . . Heartbreaking, eerie, and acutely observant." -- Kirkus Reviews , starred review "What makes [ Machine ] so thrilling is Steinberg's artistry with form; she fractures narrative into its fundamental parts. Steinberg writes prose with a poet's sense of meter and line, and a velocity recalling the novels of Joan Didion. The result is a dizzying work that perfectly evokes the feeling of spinning out of control." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "With simple, lyrical language, Steinberg presents a mystery of privilege and youth that deftly captures the unadulterated gear quaking deep behind a teenager's invincible front." -- Booklist "Otherworldly, and every-other-line sublime, Machine reads like the text messages Laura Palmer might send back from the Black Lodge. It's a timely reminder of why our culture remains haunted by dead girls, and of the different ways we find to drown them." --Bennett Sims " Machine is an astonishment. . . . Another breakthrough for modern fiction." --Sam Lipsyte "Susan Steinberg is a conventions-defying, form-innovating wizard of a writer, and I already can't wait to reread her newest book, Machine . Unique, astounding, and terribly and splendidly moving, this novel is a revelation." -- R. O. Kwon, "Steinberg''s daring experiments with style and perspective make clear that such stock suspense isn''t the point. The narrator''s real quest is to discover whether a soul--hers, if it exists--can be saved." -- The Atlantic "Steinberg''s beautifully structured sentences and wholly original stylistic decisions give Machine a delicate intricacy that enhances the depth of the plot." -- San Francisco Chronicle "[Steinberg''s] prose is urgent and fluid, propelled by grammatical tension that transforms any odd pair of clauses into a flint and a stone--sometimes they grind together in subtle variation, and sometimes they spark into something new. The reader, unsure of which result to expect, is driven to attend to each word as if it might suddenly catch on fire." -- The Nation "The narrative shifts, experimental structure and poetic language in Steinberg''s hypnotic first novel capture the teen years with their shifting emotional tides and heightened awareness of class, gender, self and others." -- BBC Culture "Stylish and innovative. . . . The semicolon is one of the most sophisticated yet poorly understood pieces of punctuation. . . . A prolific and graceful user of this oft-avoided punctuation mark, Steinberg employs it to lyrical and layered effect." -- Star Tribune (Minneapolis) "After making waves with her book Spectacle , bold stylist Susan Steinberg resurfaces with her first novel, a tale of gender, class, privilege and trauma set during a summer at the shore. . . . The narrative grapples with guilt and blame while eschewing formal conventions." -- Chicago Tribune "Susan Steinberg takes everything you loved about her short story collections ( Spectacle , anyone?) and brings them to this new tragedy: a hazy summer night in which one girl drowned. The voice of the story--sometimes singular, sometimes with other echoes--will guide and haunt you as it tries to make sense of what happened." -- Literary Hub "Steinberg''s writing sinks its teeth in down to the bone and refuses to release." -- Chicago Review of Books "Peril, fury, suspicion, rebellion--Steinberg''s craft lies in accumulating these moods and sustaining them. . . . It''s a bold and challenging way to make a book, to trust the reader to sit still for her own impalement. But the risk pays off. Machine embodies a new kind of novel in verse, a creature that''s part stutter and part song, and its stark, strange melody echoes long after its musicians have packed up and gone home." -- On the Seawal l "Steinberg writes in small, interconnected, and poetic fragments. . . . Heartbreaking, eerie, and acutely observant." -- Kirkus Reviews , starred review "What makes [ Machine ] so thrilling is Steinberg''s artistry with form; she fractures narrative into its fundamental parts. Steinberg writes prose with a poet''s sense of meter and line, and a velocity recalling the novels of Joan Didion. The result is a dizzying work that perfectly evokes the feeling of spinning out of control." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "With simple, lyrical language, Steinberg presents a mystery of privilege and youth that deftly captures the unadulterated gear quaking deep behind a teenager''s invincible front." -- Booklist "Otherworldly, and every-other-line sublime, Machine reads like the text messages Laura Palmer might send back from the Black Lodge. It''s a timely reminder of why our culture remains haunted by dead girls, and of the different ways we find to drown them." --Bennett Sims " Machine is an astonishment. . . . Another breakthrough for modern fiction." --Sam Lipsyte "Susan Steinberg is a conventions-defying, form-innovating wizard of a writer, and I already can''t wait to reread her newest book, Machine . Unique, astounding, and terribly and splendidly moving, this novel is a revelation." -- R. O. Kwon, "Steinberg's daring experiments with style and perspective make clear that such stock suspense isn't the point. The narrator's real quest is to discover whether a soul--hers, if it exists--can be saved." -- The Atlantic "Steinberg writes in small, interconnected, and poetic fragments. . . . Heartbreaking, eerie, and acutely observant." -- Kirkus Reviews , starred review "What makes [ Machine ] so thrilling is Steinberg's artistry with form; she fractures narrative into its fundamental parts. Steinberg writes prose with a poet's sense of meter and line, and a velocity recalling the novels of Joan Didion. The result is a dizzying work that perfectly evokes the feeling of spinning out of control." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Otherworldly, and every-other-line sublime, Machine reads like the text messages Laura Palmer might send back from the Black Lodge. It's a timely reminder of why our culture remains haunted by dead girls, and of the different ways we find to drown them." --Bennett Sims " Machine is an astonishment. . . . Another breakthrough for modern fiction." --Sam Lipsyte "Susan Steinberg is a conventions-defying, form-innovating wizard of a writer, and I already can't wait to reread her newest book, Machine . Unique, astounding, and terribly and splendidly moving, this novel is a revelation." -- R. O. Kwon, "Steinberg writes in small, interconnected, and poetic fragments. . . . Heartbreaking, eerie, and acutely observant." -- Kirkus Reviews , starred review "What makes [ Machine ] so thrilling is Steinberg's artistry with form; she fractures narrative into its fundamental parts. Steinberg writes prose with a poet's sense of meter and line, and a velocity recalling the novels of Joan Didion. The result is a dizzying work that perfectly evokes the feeling of spinning out of control." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Otherworldly, and every-other-line sublime, Machine reads like the text messages Laura Palmer might send back from the Black Lodge. It's a timely reminder of why our culture remains haunted by dead girls, and of the different ways we find to drown them." --Bennett Sims " Machine is an astonishment. . . . Another breakthrough for modern fiction." --Sam Lipsyte "Susan Steinberg is a conventions-defying, form-innovating wizard of a writer, and I already can't wait to reread her newest book, Machine . Unique, astounding, and terribly and splendidly moving, this novel is a revelation." -- R. O. Kwon, "Otherworldly, and every-other-line sublime, Machine reads like the text messages Laura Palmer might send back from the Black Lodge. It's a timely reminder of why our culture remains haunted by dead girls, and of the different ways we find to drown them." --Bennett Sims " Machine is an astonishment. . . . Another breakthrough for modern fiction." --Sam Lipsyte "Susan Steinberg is a conventions-defying, form-innovating wizard of a writer, and I already can't wait to reread her newest book, Machine . Unique, astounding, and terribly and splendidly moving, this novel is a revelation." -- R. O. Kwon, "Steinberg's daring experiments with style and perspective make clear that such stock suspense isn't the point. The narrator's real quest is to discover whether a soul--hers, if it exists--can be saved." -- The Atlantic "Steinberg's beautifully structured sentences and wholly original stylistic decisions give Machine a delicate intricacy that enhances the depth of the plot." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Stylish and innovative. . . . The semicolon is one of the most sophisticated yet poorly understood pieces of punctuation. . . . A prolific and graceful user of this oft-avoided punctuation mark, Steinberg employs it to lyrical and layered effect." -- Star Tribune (Minneapolis) "Steinberg writes in small, interconnected, and poetic fragments. . . . Heartbreaking, eerie, and acutely observant." -- Kirkus Reviews , starred review "What makes [ Machine ] so thrilling is Steinberg's artistry with form; she fractures narrative into its fundamental parts. Steinberg writes prose with a poet's sense of meter and line, and a velocity recalling the novels of Joan Didion. The result is a dizzying work that perfectly evokes the feeling of spinning out of control." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Otherworldly, and every-other-line sublime, Machine reads like the text messages Laura Palmer might send back from the Black Lodge. It's a timely reminder of why our culture remains haunted by dead girls, and of the different ways we find to drown them." --Bennett Sims " Machine is an astonishment. . . . Another breakthrough for modern fiction." --Sam Lipsyte "Susan Steinberg is a conventions-defying, form-innovating wizard of a writer, and I already can't wait to reread her newest book, Machine . Unique, astounding, and terribly and splendidly moving, this novel is a revelation." -- R. O. Kwon
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