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PublisherFence Magazine, Incorporated

ISBN-101934200077

ISBN-139781934200070

eBay Product ID (ePID)60723516

Product Key Features

Book TitleFlet

Number of Pages137 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicScience Fiction / Action & Adventure, Literary, Science Fiction / General

Publication Year2007

GenreFiction

AuthorJoyelle Mcsweeney

FormatPerfect

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight7.4 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews"McSweeney is in fact poet, and it impacts her writing style in Flet, which is written in short, poetic prose blackout chapters. It's surreal and familiar. Just reading it may make you feel like you are in one of those dreams where the real world is re-arranged so as to be uncomfortably unfamiliar."--Rick Kleffel, www.trashotron.com, "Sometimes you pick up a book and whole damn world opens up at your feet. ...Look, give Flet a try. It's like a bad dream you can put a bookmark in." -- The Agony Column "If Flet is the dreamscape of 21st century America, its grimly beautiful portent is that the dream can only go deeper, crushing language and the individual under its pressure. There is no waking up." --Nick Bredie, Tarpaulin Sky "Featuring a future so bright it's sunburnt, Joyelle McSweeney's exploration of a dystopian land not too dissimilar from our own overwhelms without wearing out its welcome; its overwhelming is part of the point. If anything, the perfect description for the book would either be one of its chapter titles, 'An Optic Parable,' or, perhaps, Tron as written by Allen Ginsberg." --Adam O. Davis, Perihelion "Think Brave New World , 1984 , or J. G. Ballard's dark, prophetic sci-fi. Touted on its back cover as 'speculative fiction,' Joyelle McSweeney's Flet could also be described as a poetic fever dream of the future." --Amy Gerstler, Bookforum "A left-wing, sci-fi cautionary allegory on enslavement and the media, its tut-tuts ringing depressingly hollow and familiar--a dangerous, mystical, exalted intonation, a pounding, unremitting, wordplay-driven paean to social and animalistic evolution, particle- and fracture-based existence, cartography, and authorship--a charmingly awkward hipster romance--a brutal psychological study set post-Armageddon: cruel, intimate, blurred in ultra-closeup. Flet shows what Joyelle McSweeney can do; in fact, it shows she can do everything, and in one fell swoop at that." --Micaela Morrissette, Jacket Magazine

SynopsisFlet may make you feel like you're in one of those dreams where the world is re-arranged and uncomfortably familiar., Set in a spaced-out future in which all cities have been evacuated after an "Emergency," FLET is named for its female protagonist, an Administration flunky who begins to suspect that the Emergency may be a tool of sociopolitical oppression. An elegant entry in speculative fiction, Flet finds McSweeney slowing her distinctively hyperactive imagination down to the speed of narrative., This is poet McSweeney's first novel with Fence books and is set in a spaced-out, delimited future in which all cities have been evacuated after an "Emergency," and is named for it's quiescent-but-full-of-agency female protagonist.

LC Classification NumberPS3613.C588F54 2007