A contemporary novel, set in and around New York, about human relationships, love, perception, and misperception

Cigarettes (Collier Fiction)

MATHEWS, Harry

Literature & Fiction

Macmillan Pub. Co.

The sinking of the Odradek Stadium and other novels

Harper&Row

The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium and Other Novels561 pp. "This volume... brings together his two out-of-print novels--The Conversions (1962) and Tlooth (1966)--and his latest fiction, The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium. He is a genius of wild invention presented in a kind of meticulous deadpan narration that leaves the reader howling, amazed, and exhilarated. Beneath the brilliance of his elegant language and intricate constructions, Mathews is writing avant-garde fiction of startling originality."Keywords: HARRY MATHEWS SINKING OF ODRADEK STADIUM OTHER NOVELS FICTION SHORT STORIES

The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium and Other Novels

Harper and Row, Publishers

A brilliant comedy in the form of letters exchanged between a husband, living in Miami of the not-too-distant future, and a wife, living in Italy of a not-too-remote past, as they try to trace the whereabouts of a treasure supposedly lost off the coast of Florida in the 16th century.

Sinking Odradek Stadium

HarperCollins, Publishers

The description for this book, Armenian Papers: Poems l954-l984, will be forthcoming.

Armenian Papers: Poems 1954-1984 (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)

Poetry

Princeton University Press

The description for this book, Armenian Papers: Poems l954-l984, will be forthcoming.

Harry Mathews’s last novel is one of his most accessible―and perhaps one of his best Harry Mathews's brilliant final work, The Solitary Twin, is an engaging mystery that simultaneously considers the art of storytelling. When identical twins arrive at an unnamed fishing port, they become the focus of the residents' attention and gossip. The stories they tell about the young men uncover a dizzying web of connections, revealing passion, sex, and murder. Fates are surprisingly intertwined, and the result is a moving, often hilarious, novel that questions our assumptions about life and literature.

The Solitary Twin

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

New Directions

Composed of a series of letters between a husband and wife, ?"The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium"?is a brilliant comedy about love and longing, dashed hopes and frustrations, and trying to make connections. Newly wedded Zachary McCaltex (a librarian in Miami) and Twang Panattapam (originally from the Southeast-Asian country of Pan-Nam, but residing in Italy) try to trace the whereabouts of a treasure supposedly lost off the coast of Florida in the sixteenth century, while navigating a relationship separated by an ocean as well as their different cultures. In the end, the postal service may be responsible for what gets lost (including Zachary's sanity) along the way.

The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium

United States

Carcanet Pr

This novel begins in a Russian prison camp at a baseball game featuring the defective Baptists versus the Fideists. There is a plot (of sorts), one of revenge surrounding a doctor who, in removing a bone spur from our narrator, manages to amputate a ring and index finger, a significant surgical error considering that the narrator is, or was, a violinist. When Dr. Roak is released from prison, our narrator escapes in order to begin the pursuit, and thus begins a digressive journey from Afghanistan to Venice, then on to India and Morocco and France. All of this takes place amid Mathews's fictional concern and play with games, puzzles, arcana, and stories within stories.

Tlooth

Literary

Carcanet Press

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Cigarettes (Collier Fiction)

The sinking of the Odradek Stadium and other novels

The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium and Other Novels

Sinking Odradek Stadium

Armenian Papers: Poems 1954-1984 (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)

Armenian Papers: Poems 1954-1984 (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)

The Solitary Twin

The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium

The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium

Tlooth