{"product_id":"the-alan-burns-omnibus-volume-1-paperback","title":"The Alan Burns Omnibus, Volume 1 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlan Burns\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDavid W. Madden\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan Burns was an important voice in a group of experimental writers who came to the fore in Great Britain in the post-World War II era. He worked in multiple genres--essays, interviews, drama, non-fiction, and short fiction--however, his reputation is based primarily on his eight novels, the first four of which are collected in this volume. In \u003cem\u003eBuster\u003c\/em\u003e, Burns recounts the childhood and maturation of Dan Graveson, a middle-class boy who experiences the death of his mother and older brother at a young age and who wanders from one undertaking and profession to another. \u003cem\u003eEurope After the Rain \u003c\/em\u003emoves into a surrealist aesthetic, one in which non sequiturs, the absence of rational motivation, and surprising juxtapositions predominate. \u003cem\u003eCelebrations\u003c\/em\u003e is the first of the \"cut-up\" novels: Burns visited used bookstores, purchased \"good junk fiction,\" searched for clichés and folded the pages or cut trenchant phrases and sentences out and reassembled them on a drafting table. The result, he commented, \"was a wonderful fragmentation, a chaos of language in which I can find new connections and images of language\". In \u003cem\u003eBabel\u003c\/em\u003e, this technique is taken to an extreme: the novel has no continuous narrative thread and no chapters; pages are arranged in blocks of text separated by white space, and in some cases the text appears to be arranged in newspaper columns or like a concrete poem, with lines that can be read horizontally or vertically. These four novels showcase the inventive and exciting prose innovations of one of Britain's most daring novelists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eINTRODUCTION BY DAVID W. MADDEN. CONTAINS BUSTER, EUROPE AFTER THE RAIN, CELEBRATIONS, BABEL, AND THE STORY 'WONDERLAND'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 468\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.04 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 17, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48422204244217,"sku":"9789811109713","price":30.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/XNr15iO91b9789811109713.webp?v=1779263554","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-alan-burns-omnibus-volume-1-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}