Four New Messages by Cohen, Joshua
Four New Messages by Cohen, Joshua

Four New Messages

A quartet of audacious fictions that capture the pathos and absurdity of life in the age of...
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Author: Joshua Cohen
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Four New Messages by Cohen, Joshua

Four New Messages

$27.18
Four New Messages by Cohen, Joshua

Four New Messages

$27.18
Author: Joshua Cohen
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A quartet of audacious fictions that capture the pathos and absurdity of life in the age of the internet, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Netanyahus

*A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice*
* One of Flavorwire's "50 Books That Define the Past Five Years in Literature"

A spectacularly talented young writer has returned from the present with Four New Messages, urgent and visionary dispatches that seek to save art, sex, and even alienation from corporatism and technology run rampant.

In "Emission," a hapless drug dealer in Princeton is humiliated when a cruel co-ed exposes him exposing himself on a blog gone viral. "McDonald's" tells of a frustrated pharmaceutical copywriter whose imaginative flights fail to bring solace because of a certain word he cannot put down on paper. In "The College Borough" a father visiting NYU with his daughter remembers a former writing teacher, a New Yorker exiled to the Midwest who refuses to read his students' stories, asking them instead to build a replica of the Flatiron Building. "Sent" begins mythically in the woods of Russia, but in a few virtuosic pages plunges into the present, where an aspiring journalist finds himself in a village that shelters all the women who've starred in all the internet porn he's ever enjoyed.

Highbrow and low-down, these four intensely felt stories explain what happens when the virtual begins to colonize the real -- they harness the torrential power and verbal dexterity that have established Cohen as one of America's most brilliant younger writers.

Author: Joshua Cohen
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 08/07/2012
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.04w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9781555976187


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/04/2012 pg. 27
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2012
New York Times Book Review 02/17/2013 pg. 19
New York Times Book Review 02/24/2013 pg. 22

About the Author

Joshua Cohen was born in 1980 in New Jersey. He is the author of five books, including A Heaven of Others and Witz. His nonfiction has appeared in Bookforum, The Forward, Harper's and other publications. He lives in New York City.


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