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Set in San Francisco, A Contrived World recounts the author’s visit to the mythic Californian city. While the novel is based in this real experience, the narrator’s imaginative reflections cause the narrative to balloon outward into the realms of fiction and fantasy. Each chance encounter provides an opportunity to unfurl a fictional world that simultaneously complements and compromises the real world. In this mirthful anti-novel, the ambiguous fusion of observation and invention disrupts the conventions of personal memoir and travel writing, resulting in a chronicle that sets fiction against experience.



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    A Paperback / softback by Jung Young-Moon, Jeffrey Karvonen, Mah Eunji

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      Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/08/2016
      ISBN13: 9781564789556, 978-1564789556
      ISBN10: 1564789551

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      Book Synopsis

      Set in San Francisco, A Contrived World recounts the author’s visit to the mythic Californian city. While the novel is based in this real experience, the narrator’s imaginative reflections cause the narrative to balloon outward into the realms of fiction and fantasy. Each chance encounter provides an opportunity to unfurl a fictional world that simultaneously complements and compromises the real world. In this mirthful anti-novel, the ambiguous fusion of observation and invention disrupts the conventions of personal memoir and travel writing, resulting in a chronicle that sets fiction against experience.



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      For those whose literary tastes incline toward an appreciation of such darker pleasures…

      * Quarterly Conversation *

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