{"product_id":"other-electricities-stories-paperback","title":"Other Electricities: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnder Monson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUncompromising, hypnotic and darkly humorous, \u003cem\u003eOther Electricities\u003c\/em\u003e charts a new and strange direction in American fiction.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Like Franklin's discovery of the electricity we do know, Monson's luminous, galvanized book represents a paradigm shift. The frequencies of the novel have been scrambled and redefined by this elegant experiment. \u003cem\u003eOther Electricities\u003c\/em\u003e is a new physics of prose, a lyric string theory of charged and sparkling sentences. What a kite  What a key \"--\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Martone\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Monson is tuned in to our crackling, chaotic, juiced-up times like no other young writer I know. \u003cem\u003eOther Electricities\u003c\/em\u003e is necessary reading.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Olen Butler\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMeet \"Yr Protagonist\" radio amateur, sometime vandal and \"at times, perhaps the author\" of Monson's category-defying collection: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI 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 others' conversations. There's something nearly sexual about this, hearing what other people are saying to their lovers, children, cousins, psychics, pastors. . . .\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe cumulative effect of this stunningly original collection seems to work on the reader in the same way--we follow glimpses of dispossessed lives in the snow-buried reaches of Michigan's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnder Monson\u003c\/strong\u003e is the editor of \u003cem\u003eDIAGRAM\u003c\/em\u003e and the New Michigan Press. He teaches at Grand Valley State University and lives in Michigan. Tupelo Press recently published his poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eElegies for Descent and Dreams of Weather\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnder Monson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of three published books (Neck Deep and Other Predicaments, Other Electricities, Vacationland), and one forthcoming \u003ci\u003e(Vanishing Point\u003c\/i\u003e, Graywolf, 2010). He is the editor DIAGRAM Magazine and the New Michigan Press. Though he lives in Tucson where he teaches at the University of Arizona, his heart still resides thirty hours northeast by car.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 8.94 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Independent Publisher Book Awards (2006)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769963512096,"sku":"9781932511154","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0fa6ad23906b3a3b3fed0949fec4bdff.webp?v=1780361108","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/other-electricities-stories-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}