{"product_id":"minor-angels-paperback-softback-9780803220898","title":"Minor Angels (Paperback \/ softback) 9780803220898","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMinor Angels\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAntoine Volodine (Author), Jordan Stump (Translated by), Jordan Stump (Preface by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780803220898\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 December 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e166 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm, 0.283 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMinor Angels\u003c\/i\u003e has all the markings of a masterpiece: compression, resonance, and vision.\"—Terese Svoboda\u003ci\u003e, The Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"His talent surfaces time and again in luxurious, hypnotic ways.\"—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Clever and incisive.\"—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Alive with color and detail.\"—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"His quirky and eccentric narrative achieves quite staggering and electric effects. . . . Dazzling in its epic proportions and imaginative scope.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Rilke was right: Every angel \/is\/ terrible. But the language here is intoxicating, and the buzz you get makes even the ugliest stories appear beautiful.\"—\u003ci\u003eNew York Journal News\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Volodine isn't afraid to tangle animate and inanimate spirits, or thwart expectations. He delights in breaking down our wellhoned meters of what's supposed to happen. It is out of the shambles of these once-easy relationships that \u003ci\u003eMinor Angels\u003c\/i\u003e really soars.\"—Margaret Wappler, \u003ci\u003eThe Believer Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Volodine's characters struggle against humankind's demise, managing to cling to their full names and little else, and in the process they reveal their compelling histories and strange presents, all of them concerned that their stories be told.'\"—Tim Feeney, \u003ci\u003eReview of Contemporary Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFrom Antoine Volodine comes a deeply disturbing and darkly hilarious novel whose full meaning, its author asserts, will be found not in the book's pages but in the dreams people will have after reading it. In \u003ci\u003eMinor Angels\u003c\/i\u003e Volodine depicts a postcataclysmic world in which the forces of capitalism have begun to reestablish themselves. Sharply opposed to such a trend, a group of crones confined to a nursing home—all of them apparently immortal—resolves to create an avenging grandson fashioned of lint and rags. Though conjured to crush the rebirth of capitalism, the grandson is instead seduced by its charms—only to fall back into the hands of his creators, where he manages to forestall his punishment by reciting one \"narract\" a day. It is these narracts, or prose poems, that compose the text of \u003ci\u003eMinor Angels\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52653363626264,"sku":"9780803220898","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/minor-angels-paperback-softback-9780803220898","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}