Marsupial: Our Mother for the Time Being

by Derek White (Goodreads author!)
Marsupial: Our Mother for the Time Being
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6 ratings, 4.83 average rating, 1 review (more data...)
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published
June 22nd 2008 by Calamari Press

binding
Perfect Paperback, 200 pages

isbn
0979808049   (isbn13: 9780979808043)

description
Marsupial is a fragmented novel about somebody out of place within the cathartic context of the making of a movie overseas.






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Eugene
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08/27/08

Read in August, 2008
though elsewhere dubbed aptly the first lynchian novel, MARSUPIAL reminded me most often of cronenberg's NAKED LUNCH, where an unflappable main character nods straight-faced through a bizarre and constantly morphing scenery. witty and--due to its sense of nostalgia for a just-left dream or a long-left city--oddly melancholic. a relatively simple story line anchors the book: a young man comes to Pari...more
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