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According to his contract, the old man has five months to sit on his bench and reminisce about his childhood, but all that comes out are curious stories--about leprous dominos, amorous concrete towers, chaste call girls, and more. In other words: the old man twaddles on and on. A virtuoso novel that reveals what language can do when it serves no purpose but its own proliferation, Swiss provocateur Urs Alleman's "The Old Man and the Bench" is a comedy of mangled verbosity.

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Stunning, exquisite, perfect, and difficult... makes literature that pre-dates it seem deprived. Dennis Cooper

The Old Man and the Bench – A Novel

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    A Paperback / softback by Urs Allemann, Patrick Greaney

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      Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 09/07/2015
      ISBN13: 9781628970166, 978-1628970166
      ISBN10: 1628970162

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      Book Synopsis
      According to his contract, the old man has five months to sit on his bench and reminisce about his childhood, but all that comes out are curious stories--about leprous dominos, amorous concrete towers, chaste call girls, and more. In other words: the old man twaddles on and on. A virtuoso novel that reveals what language can do when it serves no purpose but its own proliferation, Swiss provocateur Urs Alleman's "The Old Man and the Bench" is a comedy of mangled verbosity.

      Trade Review
      Stunning, exquisite, perfect, and difficult... makes literature that pre-dates it seem deprived. Dennis Cooper

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