The Way Through Doors by Ball, Jesse

The Way Through Doors (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307387462)

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The Way Through Doors by Ball, Jesse

The Way Through Doors

$17.00
The Way Through Doors by Ball, Jesse

The Way Through Doors

$17.00
Format: Paperback
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With his debut novel, Samedi the Deafness, Jesse Ball emerged as one of our most extraordinary new writers. Now, Ball returns with this haunting tale of love and storytelling, hope and identity.

When Selah Morse sees a young woman get hit by a speeding taxicab, he rushes her to the hospital. The girl has lost her memory; she is delirious and has no identification, so Selah poses as her boyfriend. She is released into his care, but the doctor charges him to keep her awake, and to help her remember her past. Through the long night, he tells her stories, inventing and inventing, trying to get closer to what might be true, and hoping she will recognize herself in one of his tales. Offering up moments of pure insight and unexpected, exuberant humor, The Way Through Doors demonstrates Jesse Ball's great artistry and gift for and narrative.

Author: Jesse Ball
ISBN-10: 0307387461
ISBN-13: 9780307387462
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 02/10/2009
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/13/2008 pg. 34
Booklist 01/01/2009 pg. 50
New Yorker (The) 03/02/2009 pg. 71
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2008 pg. 1267
New Yorker (The) 12/14/2009 pg. 85
By Jesse Ball
By Jesse Ball
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Jesse Ball (1978-) is an American poet and novelist. He is the author of Samedi the Deafness, released last year by Random House and shortlisted for the 2007 Believer Book Award. His first volume, March Book, appeared in 2004, followed by Vera & Linus (2006), and Parables and Lies (2008). His drawings were published in 2006 in Iceland in the volume Og svo kom nottin. He won the Plimpton Prize in 2008 for his novella, The Early Deaths of Lubeck, Brennan, Harp & Carr. His verse appeared in The Best American Poetry 2006. He is an assistant professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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