{"product_id":"genoa-paperback","title":"Genoa - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul Metcalf\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRick Moody\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eGenoa\u003c\/i\u003e] invites us to pass our minds down a new but ancient track, to become, ourselves, both fact and fiction, and to discover something true about the geography of time.\"--William Gass, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGenoa\u003c\/i\u003e is a spectacular confrontation with Melville's work, the journals of Columbus and molecular biology--all folded into a hallucinatory narrative about two brothers and their different paths through the American century.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Much like his great-grandfather, Herman Melville, Paul Metcalf brings an extraordinary diversity of materials into the complex patterns of analogy and metaphor, to affect a common term altogether brilliant in its imagination.\"--Robert Creeley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A unique work of historical and literary imagination, eloquent and powerful. I know of nothing like it.\"--Howard Zinn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1965, \u003ci\u003eGenoa\u003c\/i\u003e is Paul Metcalf's purging of the burden of his relationship to his great-grandfather Herman Melville. In his signature polyphonic style, a storm-tossed Indiana attic becomes the site of a reckoning with the life of Melville; with Columbus, and his myth; and between two brothers--one, an MD who refuses to practice; the other, an executed murderer. Genoa is a triumph, a novel without peer, that vibrates and sings a quintessentially American song.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Metcalf\u003c\/b\u003e (1917-99) was an American writer and the great-grandson of Herman Melville. His three volume \u003ci\u003eCollected Works\u003c\/i\u003e were published by Coffee House Press in 1996.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Metcalf (1917-1999) was an American writer and the great-grandson of Herman Melville. His three volume \u003ci\u003eCollected Works\u003c\/i\u003e were published by Coffee House Press in 1996.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 14, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42701293617215,"sku":"9781566893923","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/39b7b5f819be06b7125d7a336eacf840.webp?v=1765020079","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/genoa-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}