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Book SynopsisAlbert Goldbarth is a dazzling virtuoso who can break your heart (Joyce Carol Oates)
How is Eliza''s divorce connected to the rise of twentieth-century quantum physics? Why does the steamy promise of a key unlocking a door at a cheap motel along I-35 lead us to a consideration of Moby-Dick? What does one physician''s fake appointment book have to do with Columbus, werewolves, and Fanny Burney''s famously excruciating nineteenth-century mastectomy? Albert Goldbarth sets his story of love''s daily pleasures and griefs upon a foundation of ever-branching footnotesfrom the strange worlds of supermarket tabloids and the Legion of Super-Heroes to more contemplative forays into gender politics, Dickens scholarship, and medical anomalies. By taking us on this mind-bending journey, he shows us how our lives are both confused and empowered by the multilayered universe around us.
Pieces of Payne is the first novel by Goldbarth, a two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
