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  <title><![CDATA[Man in the Holocene]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;Frisch charts the crumbling landscape of an old man&amp;#8217;s consciousness as he slips away from himself toward death and reintegration with the age-old history of our planet. A &amp;#8220;luminous parable...a masterpiece&amp;#8221; (New York Times Book Review). Translated by Geoffrey Skelton. Illustrations. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book          &lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1980</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Max Frisch]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat Jul 07 09:50:54 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Old age is a motherfucker.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reviewed by Nick Sarno<br/><br/>The best thing about reading manuscripts is that they come with no expectations. They arrive absolutely free of history. For as much as I may love Samuel Beckett, I’m constantly forced to wonder how much of this was set up for me in advance by the Beckett brand. I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34948949">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Oct 02 13:09:42 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 02 13:11:54 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The best thing about reading manuscripts is that they come with no expectations. They arrive absolutely free of history. For as much as I may love Samuel Beckett, I’m constantly forced to wonder how much of this was set up for me in advance by the Beckett brand. I don’t know when I first read hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34381185">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[enjoyed it--and i bet it was great fresh--but now seems somehow dated, or superseded ...a faulty way to think about literature, like some progressive science, but some of that must also, it seems, be true... or maybe it's something like what's said of art forgeries, the tricks become more apparent w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22999304">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 02 10:33:23 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful book about life in Tessin, about aging and the struggle to be independent. Some might find the struggle comical, others tragic or simply foolish. I might agree, but nevertheless find it compelling and truly human.]]></body>
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    <review id="46384041">
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Mar 11 21:36:31 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A small and extremely well crafted novel focusing on one man who is old and lonely and forgetful. The author very effectively shuffles &quot;clippings&quot; from various &quot;real&quot; books into the narrative gradually creating an almost subliminal association of geological time and the short tim...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46384041">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="26453581">
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The narrative reads in short fragments, interspersed with extra-textual tables, cut-outs from encyclopedias and local histories. Structurally, it is somewhat similar to flipping through a writer's notebook. It felt comfortable to me, in that regard. <br/><br/>I admired the overwhelming sense of cl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26453581">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15226133">
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  <read_at>Tue Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[old man living on mountain worries about whether a heavy rainstorm will cause a landslide. meanwhile, he occupies himself with articles from an encyclopedia set that sets into relief how little man knows in the present holocene geological period. &quot;man remains an amateur.&quot; brief, but hefty,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15226133">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29655811">
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  <date_updated>Mon Aug 11 16:02:14 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[At 110 pages, including pictures, this book was a delightful break from the other assignments in my 20th century post-modern literature home schooling. The same goes for Calvino's 'Invisible Cities'. Keep those brilliant novels of less than 150 pages coming.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nicely short, a good reminder of mortality, and includes many clippings from the encyclopedia regarding Alpine rocks and brontosaurs, who had tiny tiny lemon-brains to run their 30-ton bodies.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="6421552">
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[max frish = swiss architect/author<br/><br/>holocene = the geological epoch in which we currently living<br/><br/>how does one organize the world in a meaningful way?<br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="36479330">
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Max Frisch is a Swiss author.  A very realistic account of aging. I am very much interested in reading more books by this author. ]]></body>
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    <review id="954672">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is what it takes to truly remove yourself from your assigned time and space.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Depressing in a thoughtful, gentle way. A little hug of depression.]]></body>
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