Overview
āLike Franklinās discovery of the electricity we do know, Monsonās luminous, galvanized book represents a paradigm shift. The frequencies of the novel have been scrambled and redefined by this elegant experiment. Other Electricities is a new physics of prose, a lyric string theory of charged and sparkling sentences. What a kite! What a key!āāMichael Martone
āMonson is tuned in to our crackling, chaotic, juiced-up times like no other young writer I know. Other Electricities is necessary reading.āāRobert Olen Butler
Meet āYr Protagonistā: radio amateur, sometime vandal and āat times, perhaps the authorā of Monsonās category-defying collection:
I know about phones. While our dad was upstairs broadcasting something to the world, and we were listening in, or trying to find his frequency and listen to his voice . . . we would give up and go out in the snow with a phone rigged with alligator clips so we could listen in on othersā conversations. Thereās something nearly sexual about this, hearing what other people are saying to their lovers, children, cousins, psychics, pastors. . . .
The cumulative effect of this stunningly original collection seems to work on the reader in the same wayāwe follow glimpses of dispossessed lives in the snow-buried reaches of Michiganās Keweenaw Peninsula, where nearly everyone seems to be slipping away under the ice to disappear forever. Through an unsettling, almost crazed gestalt of sketches, short stories, lists, indices and radio schematics, Monson presents a world where weather, landscape, radio waves and electricity are characters in themselves, affecting a community held together by the memories of those they have lost.
Ander Monson is the editor of DIAGRAM and the New Michigan Press. He teaches at Grand Valley State University and lives in Michigan. Tupelo Press recently published his poetry collection, Elegies for Descent and Dreams of Weather.
This book title, Other Electricities (Stories), ISBN: 9781932511154, by Ander Monson, published by Sarabande Books (May 1, 2005) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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