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false <![CDATA[Fog & Car]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1217432421m/3815030.jpg 3815030 2 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 and Car chase this friend, who is disguised to both of them, and the momentum of that chase pushes the two characters out of their static life-cages towards different unreal conclusions. Fog & Car begins with the alternating voices and perspectives of a Mr Fog and a Ms Car. Eventually this symbolic dialectic—which examines a tension in the novel’s tradition, the engineered ride of some narratives versus the associative cloud of others—collapses. The narrative’s shifting styles finally find an equilibrium in a troubled and subversive escapism. In this astonishing, assured first novel Eugene Lim intertwines elegant poetics with a fantastic plot, rife with love, mystery, malaise, and the supernatural. His gift for ingenious, startling permutations of language and plot make for a memorable, mesmerizing read. It was hard for me to put Fog and Car down; harder for me to stop thinking about. —Lynn Crawford The events of this novel take place in a space contrary to action, illuminating the silences of the page and the nothing that haunts the borders of “doing something.” A beautifully paced and thoughtful work. —Renee Gladman In Fog & Car Eugene Lim scalpels deep into the loneliness of coupledom, into divorce, into obsession and stalking, into casual hookups, into homoerotic shocks. The book slowly heats its duos until they come to a rolling boil, blistering out surprises and unexpected complexities. Mr. Lim is definitely a writer to watch. —Steve Katz In Fog & Car, Eugene Lim renders the uncanny convergences of the lives of partners and strangers in a language entirely new. This is a deep, engulfing novel of breathtaking, even spooking precision—an altogether heady and heart-shaking debut. —Gary Lutz Eugene’s writings have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Boog City, sonaweb, Harp & Altar, Sleeping Fish and elimae. He works as a librarian in a high school and lives with the poet Joanna Sondheim in Brooklyn. 3859306 2008 Fog & Car total:22|5:12|4:7|3:2|2:1| 22 96 43 6 4 2 false false Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 12:12:18 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 14:02:03 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jul 19 20:15:23 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 16 18:31:38 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jan 07 02:46:25 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 02:49:18 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 29 19:26:16 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 20:39:32 -0700 2008 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 ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 05:07:51 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 21 07:24:46 -0700 2009 http://www.5cense.com/zero_sum.htm]]> 5 0 false false Fri Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 17:12:34 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 14:01:12 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Oct 31 11:27:27 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 11:27:27 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Oct 14 20:55:26 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 20:55:26 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Sep 28 21:47:32 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 21:47:32 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Sep 19 07:12:47 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 07:12:47 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Sep 05 20:53:59 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 20:53:59 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Sep 04 18:06:17 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 18:06:17 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sun Sep 06 15:38:32 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 17:34:54 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 15:38:32 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Aug 21 16:36:33 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 16:36:33 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Aug 18 15:53:06 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 15:53:06 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Jun 13 19:05:36 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 19:05:36 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Apr 22 06:56:52 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 06:56:52 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Mar 23 14:22:55 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 14:22:55 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Mar 17 05:26:27 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 05:26:27 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Mar 14 16:59:27 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 14 16:59:27 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3815030