{"product_id":"houses-of-ravicka-paperback","title":"Houses of Ravicka - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRenee Gladman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"More Kafka than Kafka, Renee Gladman's achievement ranks alongside many of Borges' in its creation of a fantastical landscape with deep psychological impact.\" --Jeff VanderMeer \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Since 2010 writer and artist Renee Gladman has placed fantastic and philosophical stories in the invented city-state of Ravicka, a Ruritanian everyplace with its own gestural language, poetic architecture, and inexplicable physics. As Ravicka has grown, so has Gladman's project, spilling out from her fiction--\u003ci\u003eEvent Factory\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Ravickians\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAna Patova Crosses a Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e--into her nonfiction (\u003ci\u003eCalamities\u003c\/i\u003e) and even visual art (\u003ci\u003eProse Architectures\u003c\/i\u003e). The result is a project unlike any other in American letters today, a fictional world that spans not only multiple books but different genres, even different art forms. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eHouses of Ravicka\u003c\/i\u003e, the city's comptroller, author of \u003ci\u003eRegulating the Book of Regulations\u003c\/i\u003e, seems to have lost a house. It is not where it's supposed to be, though an invisible house on the far side of town, which corresponds to the missing house, remains appropriately invisible. Inside the invisible house, a nameless Ravickian considers how she came to the life she is living, and investigates the deep history of Ravicka--that mysterious city-country born of Renee Gladman's philosophical, funny, audacious, extraordinary imagination.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRenee Gladman\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Atlanta in 1971. She is the author of numerous books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. At the core of her work is a critically acclaimed cycle of novels about the imagined city-state of Ravicka and its inhabitants: \u003ci\u003eEvent Factory\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), \u003ci\u003eThe Ravickians\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), \u003ci\u003eAna Patova Crosses a Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), and \u003ci\u003eHouses of Ravicka\u003c\/i\u003e (2017). A graduate of Vassar College and New College of California, she was recipient of a 2021 Windham-Campbell Prize from Yale University, as well as grants and residencies from Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2015) and the Lannan Foundation (2017), among other institutions. Gladman makes her home in New England.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 6.9 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772781297952,"sku":"9780997366662","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d6117b04f5bdafa6e1e7f1315c9abca4.webp?v=1780414112","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/houses-of-ravicka-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}