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Ecco
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Performance artists Caleb and Camille Fang dedicated themselves to making great art. But when an artist's work lies in subverting normality, it can be difficult to raise well-adjusted children. Just ask Buster and Annie Fang. For as long as they can remember, they starred (unwillingly) in their parents' madcap pieces. But now that they are grown up, the chaos of their childhood has made it difficult to cope with life outside the fishbowl of their...
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"A lucid and moving debut novel on the interconnection between work and life, loneliness and kinship, and the projects that occupy our time. How do we take stock of a life-by what means, and by what measure? This is the question that preoccupies Alice, a Taiwanese immigrant in her late thirties. In the off-hours from her day job, Alice struggles to create a project about the enigmatic downtown performance artist Tehching Hsieh and his monumental,...
3) The Gift
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Series
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Praise for Barbara Browning: "A provocative novel . . . that blurs the boundaries between life and performance, dance, art, and viral video."-- Slate "Deftly blending highbrow intellectual concerns with the informality of Facebook-era communiqu#65533;s, Browning's newest is as entertaining as it is thought-provoking."-- Publishers Weekly , starred review In the midst of Occupy, Barbara Andersen begins spamming people indiscriminately with ukulele...
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"Combining the infectious narration of Nick Hornby's Funny Girl, the philosophical lyricism of Roberto Bolano's The Savage Detectives, and the mesmerizing power of Anna North's The Life and Death of Sophie Stark, a breathtaking debut, brimming with youthful brio and irresistible humor, that chronicles a young man's friendship with a most peculiar artist. On a rooftop in Brooklyn on a spring night, a young intern and would-be writer, newly arrived...
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Publisher
Jane Thornley
Pub. Date
2013
Description
As a performance artist in the New Orleans Old Quarter, Armelle plays a stone angel frozen to the spot to amuse tourists, but in those vacant minutes, she is anything but still. The past shifts, the margins between centuries blur, and suddenly Armelle is pitched into 18th century New Orleans, accused of treachery by a man she knows died in 1759. And now the time lapses intensify, impacting her current life. Did she really make an indecent pass at...
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