{"title":"Ben Marcus","description":"Ben Marcus is the author of three books of fiction: The Age of Wire and String, Notable American Women, and The Flame Alphabet, and he is the editor of The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories. His stories have appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, Granta, Electric Literature, The Paris Review, McSweeney's, Tin House, and Conjunctions. He has received the Berlin Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers' Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in fiction, three Pushcart Prizes, and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 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On the eve of their departure, Claire mysteriously disappears, and Sam, determined to find a cure for this new toxic language, presses on alone into a foreign world to try to save his family.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103249010911,"sku":"9780307739971","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/U6JQboCCx99780307739971.webp?v=1781090582"},{"product_id":"the-age-of-wire-and-string-paperback","title":"The Age of Wire and String - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Age of Wire and String\u003c\/em\u003e, hailed by Robert Coover as \"the most audacious literary debut in decades,\" Ben Marcus weilds together a new reality from the scrapheap of the past.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Dogs, birds, horses, automobiles, and the weather are some of the recycled elements in Marcus's first collection--part fiction, part handbook--as familiar objects take on markedly unfamiliar meanings. 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Witnessing (and subjected to) their cultish actions is one Ben Marcus, whose father, Michael Marcus, may be buried in the back yard, and whose mother, Jane Marcus, enthusiastically condones the use of her son for (generally unsuccessful) breeding purposes, among other things. Inventing his own uses for language, the author Ben Marcus has written a harrowing, hilarious, strangely moving, altogether engrossing work of fiction that will be read and argued over for years to come.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBen Marcus achieved cult status and gained the admiration of his peers with his first book, \"The \"Age of Wire and String. 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