false 4413184 1 "La Medusa" is a polyphonic novel of post-conceptual consciousness. At the heart of the whole floats Medusa, an androgynous central awareness that anchors the novel throughout. "La Medusa" is at once the city of Los Angeles, with its snaking freeways and serpentine shifts between reality and illusion, and a brain - a modern mind that is both expansive and penetrating in its obsessions and perceptions.Vanessa Place's characters - a trucker and his wife, a nine-year-old saxophonist, an ice cream vendor, a sex worker, and a corpse, among others - are borderless selves in a borderless city, a city impossible to contain. Her expert ventriloquism and explosive imagination anchor this epic narrative in language that is fierce and vibrant, a penetrating cross-section of contemporary Los Angeles and a cross-section of the modern mind. 4461331 10 8 2008 La Medusa total:8|5:7|4:1| 8 39 33 1 0 0 false false Wed Sep 17 21:03:09 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 17 21:11:29 -0700 2008 Ulysses and Gass' The Tunnel in a literary conversation. Successfully I'd say. Not a beach...more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Nov 06 06:39:17 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 06:39:29 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 02 11:57:31 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 11:57:31 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Sep 07 19:23:41 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 19:23:41 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jul 18 10:48:12 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 10:48:25 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jun 09 13:34:57 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 13:34:57 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu May 14 06:20:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 06:20:00 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue May 12 18:28:49 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 18:28:49 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Apr 30 11:02:57 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 11:02:57 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Apr 28 05:52:48 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 05:52:48 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Apr 27 13:27:52 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 13:27:52 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Apr 25 13:18:37 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 13:18:37 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Apr 25 09:03:03 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 09:03:03 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Apr 14 17:21:25 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 17:21:25 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Mar 26 05:36:39 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 05:36:39 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Mar 22 10:09:45 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 10:09:45 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Mar 18 22:59:03 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 22:59:03 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Mar 15 16:01:55 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 16:01:55 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Mar 15 10:54:45 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 10:54:49 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Mar 05 20:48:56 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 20:48:56 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4413184