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These Lowly Objects

by Kate McGowan
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781644672266
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Gold Wake Press Collective
  • Publisher Imprint: Gold Wake Press Collective
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 296
  • Original Price: USD 17.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 341 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Writing / Poetry, Poetry, and General

In These Lowly Objects, Cate McGowan has fashioned one of
the great fictional characters of our time in Jules Lalande,
Dadaist extraordinaire. From his Dickensian childhood
alongside a second cousin (and later, wife), Isobel, McGowan
tracks--in rich, rigorous prose--the Zelig-like Lalande's
wanderings through fin de siècle Paris as he rubs elbows with
Degas and Cézanne, fights in World War I, lands in New York
with Breton, becomes a professional boxer, hangs out with
Duchamp, and disappears in Cuba--or does he? Enter this
remarkably imagined, enchanted world and discover the
many delights of McGowan's marvelous creation.
--Robin Lippincott, author of Blue Territory:
A Meditation on the Life and Art of Joan Mitchell
Lyrical, stunning, and deeply strange, Cate McGowan's novel
concerns a shape-shifting protagonist, Jules Lalande. Lalande
disappeared years ago: various people--his estranged wife
Isobel Wright, journalist Titus Pidgeon, and the people
Pidgeon interviews, including historical figures like Andre
Breton and Marcel Duchamp--chase his scent. McGowan's
luminous novel tracks their efforts to conjure this enigmatic
poet-painter-performance artist-thief-con man-duke-trauma
victim-killer-healer. Twisty and original, These Lowly Objects
is fundamentally about self-hood, its precariousness and
perishability, and its surprising capacity for resurrection.
--Kim Magowan, author of Undoing and The
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