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Fog & Car
by
Eugene Lim (Goodreads Author)
Jim Fog is marooned in a small Midwest town shortly after his divorce, succumbing to purposelessness and nostalgia. His ex, Sarah Car, has moved to New York City with the ambition of skipping over any mourning for their marriage. An old friend, ignorant himself of his action’s consequences, enables Fog and Car to move through and haunt each other’s lives. Eventually Fog a...more
Published
2008
by Ellipsis Press
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Despite its near fetishistic eshewence* of metaphor, I really liked this novel. I know metaphors aren't cool right now but then niether am I. I've never been cool. Never been even remotely cool. But this novel is cool. Read it and see. Imagine the time you'll save, not having to read all those pesky metaphors, which are just filler anyway, right? Except, I began to spend a lot of time looking for metaphors once I realized there wouldn't be any. Kind of like looking for an e in A Void.
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A wonderfully strange little book, completely unpredictable, and a journey well-worth taking. This one has stuck with me in the two years since I read it and reviewed it for RCF, and I plan to revisit it in time.
Whoa. This books was out there. It begins with characters going through the small tragedies of post-divorce life, and ends up in feeling nearly as surreal as Bulgakov. Far out stuff.
I bought this thinking it would be discounted but it wasn't. but it was only 10 dollars. so yay
God I loved this book.
Eugene balances this gorgeous, tentativeness as both slightly broken souls naviagate life beyond marriage and imaginations of marriage. I found myself laughing, albeit slightly moritified at moments of self-recognition in captured essences of apartments, letter-writing and understanding of self.
Just beautiful.
Eugene balances this gorgeous, tentativeness as both slightly broken souls naviagate life beyond marriage and imaginations of marriage. I found myself laughing, albeit slightly moritified at moments of self-recognition in captured essences of apartments, letter-writing and understanding of self.
Just beautiful.
I talk about it some here:
http://www.5cense.com/zero_sum.htm
http://www.5cense.com/zero_sum.htm
Fog & Car was difficult for me to read, but not in a bad way. It just brought up a lot, and has a way of taking something over.
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Eugene Lim is an editor at small for Harp & Altar and is founder and managing editor of Ellipsis Press. His fiction has appeared in Fence, The Denver Quarterly, EXPLORINGFictions, The Brooklyn Rail, sonaweb, sleepingfish, elimae, No Colony and elsewhere. His first novel,
Fog & Car
, was named a finalist in Blatt Magazine’s 2007 Novel of Novels competition and was published in 2008 by Ellip...more
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