The Age of Wire and String

In The Age of Wire and String, hailed by Robert Coover as"the most audacious literary debut in decades," Ben Marcus weldstogether a new reality from the scrapheap of the past. Dogs, birds,horses, automobiles, and the weather are some of the recycled elementsin Marcus's first collection—part fiction, part handbook—as familiarobjects take on markedly unfamiliar meanings. Gradually, thismakeshift world, in its defiance of the laws of physics and language,finds a foundation in its own implausibility, as Marcus produces newfeelings and sensations—both comic and disturbing—in the definitiveguide to an unpredictable yet exhilarating plane of existence.