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SMOKE ISBN: 0-96324225-3
Spiral Bound - 350 Pages
Price: $27.50 The existence of the novel SMOKE has been rumored for some years, but, until now, it has not been publicly available. The following brief reaction from internationally renowned sculptor, Stanley Bleifeld, one of its earliest proponents, may indicate why SMOKE is now moving from simple rumor to a powerful contemporary myth. "SMOKE starts by making us believe we are reading a modern play on the ‘creation’, then seduces us into the terrible magnetic field of a holocaust. While we may suspect that we are being played with in a ‘who dun it’, we are, in fact, being immersed in the banality of evil, whose rhythms and phrasing belie the raw reality of its conclusion. What that conclusion is I enthusiastically leave to the reader to experience – not to be arch, but to allow the simultaneous super-reality and wild fantasy to fully play out its unnerving capacity. "The author sounds a meter and rhythm that renders space real before meaning becomes apparent. Nameless characters are given life (or death) by inexorably realistic dialogue, and description is infrequent and unnecessary. "More than ten years ago an original version of SMOKE left me breathless. It continues to work its uncanny and disconcerting magic to this day." STANLEY BLEIFELD, Former President, National Sculpture Society Chief Sculptor U.S.Navy Memorial, Washington DC |
