02154nam 2200541Ia 450 991081234910332120200520144314.01-57366-801-X(CKB)1000000000483494(EBL)438200(OCoLC)606216294(SSID)ssj0000224788(PQKBManifestationID)11197646(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000224788(PQKBWorkID)10229589(PQKB)10778768(MdBmJHUP)muse27125(Au-PeEL)EBL438200(CaPaEBR)ebr10218353(MiAaPQ)EBC438200(EXLCZ)99100000000048349420060908d2007 ub 1engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe possibility of music /Stephen-Paul Martin1st ed.Tuscaloosa, Ala. FC2c20071 online resource (161 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-57366-134-1 Contents; Impossible; The Possibility of Music; A New Kind of Happiness; Worlds Converging; Ecstatic Ellipsis; Collapsing into a StoryAn exhilarating collection about the limits of language, narrative, and identity. The Possibility of Music is an imaginative reconstruction of America in the early 21st century. What would our post-9/11 society look like if it were viewed through a series of funhouse mirrors?Each of Stephen-Paul Martin's stories is a response to this question, a prose exploration that redefines what it means to write fiction in a world in which the Sistein Chapel has become the Mall of America. Nightmarish at times, playfully amusing at others, Martin's prose is relentlesAmerican fictionAmerican literatureAmerican fiction.American literature.813/.54Martin Stephen-Paul1174382MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812349103321The possibility of music4094159UNINA