La Medusa is a polyphonic novel of post-conceptual consciousness. At the heart of the whole floats Medusa, an androgynous central awareness that anchors the novel throughout. La Medusa is at once the city of Los Angeles, with its snaking freeways and serpentine shifts between reality and illusion, and a brain--a modern mind that is both expansive and penetrating in its obsessions and perceptions. Vanessa Place's characters--a trucker and his wife, a nine-year-old saxophonist, an ice cream vendor, a sex worker, and a ...
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La Medusa is a polyphonic novel of post-conceptual consciousness. At the heart of the whole floats Medusa, an androgynous central awareness that anchors the novel throughout. La Medusa is at once the city of Los Angeles, with its snaking freeways and serpentine shifts between reality and illusion, and a brain--a modern mind that is both expansive and penetrating in its obsessions and perceptions. Vanessa Place's characters--a trucker and his wife, a nine-year-old saxophonist, an ice cream vendor, a sex worker, and a corpse, among others--are borderless selves in a borderless city, a city impossible to contain. Her expert ventriloquism and explosive imagination anchor this epic narrative in language that is fierce and vibrant, a penetrating a cross-section of contemporary Los Angeles and a cross-section of the modern mind.
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Add this copy of La Medusa to cart. $19.95, very good condition, Sold by Books on the Boulevard rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sherman Oaks, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Fiction Collective 2.
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Very Good. 1573661457. Rear corner crease to last few pages. Binding tight and straight, inner pages clean and unmarked.; 6 X 1.4 X 9 inches; 488 pages.
Add this copy of La Medusa to cart. $20.01, good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Fiction Collective 2.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.
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