The Disintegrations

ISBN-13: 9780299314705 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 232 str.

Alistair McCartney

Opis

"I know nothing about death, absolutely nothing," asserts the narrator of this inventive autobiographical novel. Yet he can't stop thinking about it. Detached from life in Los Angeles and his past in Australia, uncomfortable around other humans, he researches death on the Internet; mulls over distant and intimate stories of suicides, serial killers, and "natural deaths"; and wanders about LA's Holy Cross Cemetery. He's looking for answers, all the while formulating his own disquieting philosophies.

Within this dizzying investigation into the mystery of death is another mystery: who is the companion igniting these memories? This enigmatic novel blurs the line between fiction and nonfiction, story and eulogy, poetry and obituary. Wry yet somber, astringent yet tender, The Disintegrations confronts both the impossibility of understanding death and the timeless longing for immortality.

Spis treści

• The Weight
• Holy Cross Cemetery
• My Grandma’s Resurrection
• Holy Cross Cemetery, Part Two
• The Cycle of Experience
• Robert
• The Dead Man’s Things
• Orientation
• Mike Hazelwood and the Floor of the Dead
• The California Section
• A Tour
• The Birnies
• Brushes with Death
• Demographics
• Heidi’s Book
• Notable Persons
• The Mourners
• The Dancing Corpse of Jill Yip
• A Hole in the World
• Disintegration
• Erin’s Trip
• Regulations
• The University of Disintegration
• Chris, a Recipe
• My Coffin
• The Caretaker’s Wife
• Cooper’s Story
• A Hole in the Ground
• Odors
• Aino’s Song
• How to Dispose of Me
• The Mourner
• Eun Kang and the Ocean
• Death Dream #1
• Data
• My Grandfather’s Hemorrhage
• Immortality
• An Encounter
• The Ballad of Sandra Golvin
• A Death Book
• The Hearses
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• A Note on Sources
• Acknowledgments