eBook: ELADATL: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines (DRM EPUB)
 
電子書格式: DRM EPUB
作者: Sesshu Foster, Arturo Ernesto Romo 
分類: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)  
書城編號: 20607180

原價: HK$208.00
現售: HK$197.6 節省: HK$10.4

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製造商: City Lights Publishers
出版日期: 2021/04/06
ISBN: 9780872868250
 
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A breathtaking free fall into the long-buried (and fictional) history of a utopian era in American lighter-than-air travel, as told by its death-defying, aero-acrobatic heroes."Foster and Romo's 'real fake dream' of the future-past history of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines is a superb and loving phantasmagoria that gobbles up real histories for breakfast and spits out the seeds."Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless BrooklynIn the early years of the twentieth-century, the use of airships known as dirigiblessome as large as one thousand feet longwas being promulgated in Southern California by a semi-clandestine lighter-than-air movement. Groups like the East LA Balloon Club and the Bessie Coleman Aero Club were hard at work to revolutionize travel, with an aim to literally lift oppressed people out of racism and poverty.ELADATL tells the story of this little-known period of American air travel in a series of overlapping narratives told by key figures, accompanied by a number of historic photographs and recently discovered artifacts, with appendices provided to fill in the missing links. The story of the rise and fall of this ill-fated airship movement investigates its long-buried history, replete with heroes, villains, and moments of astonishing derring-do and terrifying disaster.Written and presented as an ';actual history of a fictional company,' this surrealist, experimental novel is a tour de force of politicized fantastic fiction, a work of hybrid art-making distilled into a truly original literary form. Developed over a ten-year period of collaborations, community interventions, and staged performances, ELADATL is a furiously hilarious send-up of academic histories, mainstream narratives, and any traditional notions of the time-space continuum."Poet Foster (Atomik Aztex) and artist Romo deliver a maddeningly accomplished inquiry into the secret history of East Los Angeles. . . . This is as much fun to read as it must have been to make."Publishers Weekly, Starred Review"One of the wildest, most creative and deeply-cutting novels I've read in years, a genuine piece of newness in both content and form. To wade through this surreal narrative archeology is to experience, in the finest sense, literature as fever dream."Omar El Akkad, author of American War: A Novel"Visionary, hilarious, anarchic, this assemblage of breakneck dialog, blisteringly brilliant film criticism, bureaucratic documents, revolutionary chatter, mass transit, and fake dreams of the secret police, is the counterfactual novel to beat all counterfactual novels."Mark Doten, author of Trump Sky Alpha"Hilarious and prophetic and profound, truer than truth, and realer than all realities currently available for purchase, ELADATL is strong medicine against the erasures of history, a mega-vitamin for struggles yet to come. This book combats despair."Ben Ehrenreich, author of Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time
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