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Phone Rings
A shocking phone call in the first sentence sparks a soaring tour-de-force saga by two-time National Book Award nominee Stephen Dixon.
It is the tale of two brothers, years apart in age, who have become close late in life. But the freakish death of one at the book's outset sends the other reeling into a shattered yet strangely exhilarating re-visitation of their lives toget...more
It is the tale of two brothers, years apart in age, who have become close late in life. But the freakish death of one at the book's outset sends the other reeling into a shattered yet strangely exhilarating re-visitation of their lives toget...more
Paperback, 280 pages
Published
September 1st 2005
by Melville House
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I read part of _Interstate_, also by Dixon, a few years ago and was enthralled before I threw it down because it was too painful in the way it kept going over the same traumatic scene of a father watching helplessly as his daughter is murdered in front of him. There was a looping of time in that book I found bracingly cool, but too much for me at the same time, because I needed to be able to move on from that introductory horror.
_Phone Rings_ is obsessed with the same kind of eternal return, thi...more
_Phone Rings_ is obsessed with the same kind of eternal return, thi...more
PS3554.I92P48 2005
Another book by Mr. Dixon about an old-ish man who drinks miso soup in the mornings with his paper and talks in completely long, near pointless, near artful sentences that often start with the word 'listen' and works in the impatience and guilt of being sick of taking care of a wife who has a terminal illness, and explores the idea of redrafting as replotting. I still like Stephen Dixon and want to pinch his buttty butt butt, but could have been better.
Jun 25, 2008
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Just a great story. It's about a man and his relationship with his older brother and his family and early life. A simply but wonderfully told story.
"Stephen Dixon is one of the great secret masters..." -- Jonathan Lethem
“...a hip Saul Bellow...” -- Publishers Weekly
“...a hip Saul Bellow...” -- Publishers Weekly
Oh wow. God, this book, yes, so good, a really very good kind of stunning book.
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Dixon is known for his colloquial and stilted, yet intense and exhaustive writing style. Dixon has been has been nominated for the National Book Award twice, in 1991 for Frog and in 1995 for Interstate.
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