Torpor / Chris Kraus.
Publication details: London : Tuskar Rock Press, 2017.Description: x, 292 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 1781258988
- 9781781258989
- 813.6 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | KRA | Available | 066316 |
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First published in the USA in 2006 by Semiotext(e), South Pasadena, California.
Includes foreword by Fanny Howe; afterword by Mckenzie Wark.
It's summer 1991, the dawning of the New World Order; and post-MTV, pre-AOL generation. Jerome Shafir and Sylvie Green, two former New Yorkers who can no longer afford an Eat VIllage apartment, set off on a journey across the entire former Soviet Bloc with the intention of adopting a Romanian orphan. There are only two things that Sylvie thinks will save them: a child of their own, and the success of Jerome's long-postponed book, The anthropology of unhappiness.