The Resource Communion Town : a city in ten chapters, Sam Thompson
Communion Town : a city in ten chapters, Sam Thompson
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The item Communion Town : a city in ten chapters, Sam Thompson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Each of us conjures our own city, one of many incarnations; a place throbbing with so many layers, meanings, and hidden corners cannot be the same for any two citizens. Communion Town calls to mind David Mitchell's Ghostwritten, Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, and China Miéville's The City & The City, but is uniquely its own. This incandescent novel maps an imaginary city and explores the lives of its outcasts and scapegoats. Each chapter is told from the perspective of a different citizen--defining the city itself as a character, both protagonist and antagonist--and each is told in a different genre, from a hardboiled detective story to steampunk to gothic horror, displaying the great range of Sam Thompson's literary ability. As the novel unfolds in different neighborhoods, we encounter a lovelorn folksinger, a repressed detective, a slaughterhouse worker, a lost tourist, a bon vivant, and a ghost. From their lonely voices we gather the many-faceted story of the city: a place imagined differently by each citizen as he or she searches for connection, transformation, or escape
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 279 pages
- Contents
-
- The rose tree
- A way to leave
- Communion Town
- The song of Serelight Fair
- The City Room
- Gallathea
- Good slaughter
- Three translations
- The significant city of Lazarus Glass
- Outside the days
- Isbn
- 9781620401651
- Label
- Communion Town : a city in ten chapters
- Title
- Communion Town
- Title remainder
- a city in ten chapters
- Statement of responsibility
- Sam Thompson
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Each of us conjures our own city, one of many incarnations; a place throbbing with so many layers, meanings, and hidden corners cannot be the same for any two citizens. Communion Town calls to mind David Mitchell's Ghostwritten, Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, and China Miéville's The City & The City, but is uniquely its own. This incandescent novel maps an imaginary city and explores the lives of its outcasts and scapegoats. Each chapter is told from the perspective of a different citizen--defining the city itself as a character, both protagonist and antagonist--and each is told in a different genre, from a hardboiled detective story to steampunk to gothic horror, displaying the great range of Sam Thompson's literary ability. As the novel unfolds in different neighborhoods, we encounter a lovelorn folksinger, a repressed detective, a slaughterhouse worker, a lost tourist, a bon vivant, and a ghost. From their lonely voices we gather the many-faceted story of the city: a place imagined differently by each citizen as he or she searches for connection, transformation, or escape
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1978-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Thompson, Sam
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- City dwellers
- Cities and towns
- Imaginary places
- Cities and towns
- City dwellers
- Imaginary places
- Label
- Communion Town : a city in ten chapters, Sam Thompson
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- The rose tree
- A way to leave
- Communion Town
- The song of Serelight Fair
- The City Room
- Gallathea
- Good slaughter
- Three translations
- The significant city of Lazarus Glass
- Outside the days
- Control code
- ocn827256637
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 279 pages
- Isbn
- 9781620401651
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- Communion Town : a city in ten chapters, Sam Thompson
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- The rose tree
- A way to leave
- Communion Town
- The song of Serelight Fair
- The City Room
- Gallathea
- Good slaughter
- Three translations
- The significant city of Lazarus Glass
- Outside the days
- Control code
- ocn827256637
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 279 pages
- Isbn
- 9781620401651
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
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