By: Lethem, Jonathan, Scholz, Carter
Price: $5.50
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company: September 2001
Seller ID: 512369
ISBN: 039332253X
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
Previously published only in a signed, limited edition, Kafka Americana has achieved cult status. Norton now brings this reimagination of our labyrinthine world to a wider audience. In an act of literary appropriation, Lethem and Scholz seize a helpless Kafka by the lapels and thrust him into the cultural wreckage of twentieth-century America. In the collaboratively written "Receding Horizon," Hollywood welcomes Kafka as scriptwriter for Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, with appropriately morbid results. Scholz's "The Amount to Carry" transports "the legal secretary of the Workman's Accide...
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