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Distance, Paperback by Vladislavic, Ivan, Brand New, Free shipping in the US

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Condition	Brand New
ISBN	9781939810762
Book Title	Distance
Publisher	Steerforth Press
Item Length	6.9 in
Publication Year	2020
Format	Trade Paperback
Language	English
Illustrator	Yes
Item Height	1 in
Author	Ivan Vladislavic
Genre	Fiction
Topic	Coming of Age, Sports
Item Weight	13.5 Oz
Item Width	5.7 in
Number of Pages	210 Pages

Distance, Paperback by Vladislavic, Ivan, ISBN 1939810760, ISBN-13 9781939810762, Brand New, Free shipping in the US"In his youth in 1970s suburban Pretoria, Joe falls in love with Muhammad Ali. He diligently scrapbooks newspaper clippings of his his hero, recording the showman's words and taking in his inimitable brand of resistance. Forty years later, digging out his yellowed archive of Ali clippings and comic books, Joe sets out to write a memoir of his childhood. Calling upon his brother Branko for help, their two voices interweave to unearth a shared past. Reconstructing a world of bioscopes, Formica tabletops, Ovaltine, and drop-offs in their father's Ford Zephyr, conjuring the textures of childhood, what emerges is a collision of memories, patching the gulf between past and present. Meaning arises in the gaps between fact and imagination, and words themselves become markers of the past and the turbulent present. In this formally inventive, fragmented novel, Vladislaviâc evokes the beauty, and the strangeness, of remembering and forgetting, and explores what it means to be at odds with one's surroundings"--