Bibliograph

TheMystery.doc, Matthew McIntosh

Type

Label

TheMystery.doc, Matthew McIntosh

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

TheMystery.doc

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1040074551

Responsibility statement

Matthew McIntosh

Summary

Rooted in the western United States in the decade post-9/11, theMystery.doc follows a young writer and his wife as he attempts to write his second book, a national epic he hopes will last forever, and as he searches for a form that will express the world as it has become, revealing the interconnectedness of all our lives. Pop-up ads, internet search results, spam, lines of code, frames of film and television mix with canonical works of literature, alchemical manuscripts, transcripts of personal conversations, and the story of a man who wakes up one morning not knowing who he is, a blank document called themystery.doc newly appeared on his computer. Part love story, part prose poem, part documentary, part existential whodunit, part future-fiction, part Bildungsroman, part memoir, theMystery.doc is about the quest to find something lasting in a world where everything is in danger of slipping away. Love, loss, birth, death, technology, terrorism and the American Dream come together to form a great symphonic work that dazzles in both its structure and in its deep emotional resonance

Table Of Contents

Act I: Home & garden -- Act II: Real human bodies -- Act III: The last day of the system

resource.variantTitle

Mystery.doc

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