{"product_id":"was-annales-nomadique-a-novel-of-internet-paperback-softback-9781573661379","title":"Was; Annales Nomadique - a Novel of Internet (Paperback \/ softback) 9781573661379","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWas\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAnnales Nomadique - a Novel of Internet\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael A. Joyce (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781573661379\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 March 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e152 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.5 x 16.5 x 0.9 cm, 0.26 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSimply put, Michael Joyce is one of the most imaginative artists of his time. - Camille Renshaw, Plf Magazine\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWas is half-poem, half-narrative, a nomadic history whose main character is the fleetingness of information itself. The novel's title figure, the word \"\"was,\"\" marks that instant of utterance outside the present; neither past nor future but rather the interstitial space of any telling. Like Ariel in flight, was takes place before you can say \"\"'come' and 'go,'\"\" slipping away before you can \"\"breathe twice and cry 'so, so.'\"\" The nomadic lovers here, as any lovers, attempt to linger in the afterglow of what was, but it slips away like mist. Story begets story as if without author, events gathering into one another, as much memory as dream, their locales literally moving across the face of the globe. Continent to continent, from hemisphere to hemisphere, synaptic episodes strobe across the earth's surface like thunderstorms seen from a satellite. Yet in these brief flashes a memorable and deeply moving procession of characters passes in vignette: lovers and children, parents and refugees, sailors, missionaries, clowns, mourners, forlorn warriors, sweet singers. \"\"Was\"\" is a brilliant new work by the author of afternoon, a story which the \"\"New York Times\"\" calls \"\"the granddaddy of hypertext fictions\"\" and the \"\"Toronto Globe\"\" and \"\"Mail\"\" describes as being \"\"to the hypertext interactive novel what the Gutenberg Bible is to publishing.\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":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619291263256,"sku":"9781573661379","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/was-annales-nomadique-a-novel-of-internet-paperback-softback-9781573661379","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}