Absolute Away by Lance Olsen (Paperback Book)

Name: Absolute Away by Lance Olsen (Paperback Book)
Brand: Dzanc Books

Dzanc Books

With Lance Olsen\u2019s signature flair, Absolute Away is an innovative narrative triptych, a story of one life reimagined. \nThe first movement tells the story of Edie Metzger, a little Jewish girl who bit Hermann G\u00F6ring\u2019s lip so hard it bled at a Nazi book-burning rally in 1933. In the second, in 1956, grown Edie is the passenger clinging to the backseat of the Oldsmobile 88 convertible driven by Jackson Pollock, moments before it plunges off the road. In the third, the narrative embarks into an ever-unspooling universe of Edies that might have lived\u2014Edie\u2019s gender, past, and consciousness flying forever farther apart.\nAbsolute Away is a novel about travel in its largest sense\u2014about the self, the past, the future, aging, ideas, relationships, our own mortal being(s) as transitive verbs, and how\n\nAbsolute Away\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note that t;