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Patchwork
About this book
Tom Comitta returns with a novella that is at once a picaresque quest for a stolen snuffbox and a marvel of literary découpage, equal parts love story, old-fashioned thriller, and absurdist romp.
To whom does a story belong? Who is its author? What is an author? Does it matter? These questions and more populate the subversive and audacious Patchwork, a comical tragedy that highlights the connective tissue that joins stories to themselves as well as to the grand history of storytelling itself. Celebrating the tropes and clichés of classical novels while simultaneously forging them into an original narrative, Patchwork ultimately shows us that the stories produced by hundreds of writers past—celebrated or obscure, reverent or hilarious, factual or fantastical—may, in the hands of a master, become a single, seamless whole.
To whom does a story belong? Who is its author? What is an author? Does it matter? These questions and more populate the subversive and audacious Patchwork, a comical tragedy that highlights the connective tissue that joins stories to themselves as well as to the grand history of storytelling itself. Celebrating the tropes and clichés of classical novels while simultaneously forging them into an original narrative, Patchwork ultimately shows us that the stories produced by hundreds of writers past—celebrated or obscure, reverent or hilarious, factual or fantastical—may, in the hands of a master, become a single, seamless whole.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- I: Being the First Lines of This Novel and 65 Other Novels
- II: Being the Contents of My Uncleās Letter
- III: Being My Response to the Letter
- IV: Being the Agonizing Account of My Sorry State Four Days after the Letter & Four Months after Catherineās Departure
- V: Being the Contents of the Book
- VI: Being a Visual Representation of My Thought Processes after Reading Said Book
- VII: Being the Events of the Following Morning Told in the Form of a Run-On Sentence
- VIII: Being an Account of the Something that was out there
- IX: Being the Sibilant Sounds of our Restless Race Through the Woods, Past the Lake, Back into the Woods, Through the Fields, Over Hills, and to My Companionās Eventful Encounter with the Beast
- X: Being the Two Routes Before Me at This Figurative Fork in the Road
- XI: Being the Continuation of Column B
- XII: Being the Continuation of the Continuation of Column B
- XIII: Being the Continuation of the Continuation of the Continuation of Column B
- XIV: Being the Accurate Account of How I Passed the Time after My Tumultuous Tiff at Mrs. Bās
- XV: Being the Ballad of What Came Next
- XVI: Being My Brief Ascent into Gothic Mystery
- XVII: Being the Paintings that Lined the Hallway on the other Side of the Door
- XVIII: Being My Decorous Descent into the Depths of Gothic Terror
- XIX: Being the Climax of This Novel
- XX: Being the Tattered Testimony of How the Dominie Obtained the Coveted Snuff Box
- XXI: Being My Fateful Fight for the Snuff Box
- XXII: Being the Typo-Tortured Tale of My Time Following the Loss of the Snuff Box
- XXIII: Being the Short Short Story of What Happened the Next Morning when the Sun had not yet Risen
- XXIV: Being a Visual Rendering of My Walk Home
- XXV: Being an Olfactory Rendering of My Walk Home
- XXVI: Being the Discreet Dreams of the Bourgeoisie
- XXVII: Being the Awkward Account of My Confrontation with Prince Paradox
- XXVIII: Being the Day of the Duel
- XXIX: Being the Sounds the Birds made in This Fractional Fragment of Time
- XXX: Being the Riveting Results of the Duel
- XXXI: Being the Golden Prelude to an Ending
- XXXII: Being the End of This Novel and 33 Other Novels
- Authorās Note
- Sources
- Acknowledgements
- Funder Acknowledgments
- The Publisherās Circle of Coffee House Press