Wolf at the Door by Travis Jeppesen (English) Paperback Book

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Fiction. A sculptor dying of a mysterious illness leaves the city behind in order to live out his final days in solitude in a village somewhere in Eastern Europe. His sole contact is with a deaf-mute gravedigger named Vojtech, a golem-like figure who delivers the necessary provisions—when he remembers to show up. A nameless wanderer traverses the barren streets of an unknown city in search of his next prey...

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Fiction. A sculptor dying of a mysterious illness leaves the city behind in order to live out his final days in solitude in a village somewhere in Eastern Europe. His sole contact is with a deaf-mute gravedigger named Vojtech, a golem-like figure who delivers the necessary provisions--when he remembers to show up. A nameless wanderer traverses the barren streets of an unknown city in search of his next prey...

Author Biography

Travis Jeppesen (born September 4, 1979 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) is an American novelist, poet, and art critic. He grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina and moved to New York City at the age of 17. He received his B.A. from Eugene Lang College, New School for Social Research (now The New School), where he studied literature and philosophy. Among his professors at the New School were the philosopher Paul Edwards and writers Lynda Schor and Sekou Sundiata. He later studied literary translation at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle and art history at the Open University. Bruce Bend

Long Description

This is an absurdist drama of banal interactions via two parallel stories that never directly intersect, but rather hover interdependently in a polluted atmospheric stasis. A sculptor dying of a mysterious illness leaves the city behind in order to live o

Review Quote

The most exciting first novel I've read in a decade or more. This is a brilliant, haunting, and, strangest of all, very funny novel. -- Dennis Cooper

Details ISBN8086264297 Author Travis Jeppesen Short Title WOLF AT THE DOOR Pages 170 Publisher Twisted Spoon Press Language English ISBN-10 8086264297 ISBN-13 9788086264295 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2007 Birth 1979 DOI 10.1604/9788086264295 Imprint Twisted Spoon Press Place of Publication Prague Country of Publication Czechia Illustrations with flaps Publication Date 2007-05-01 DEWEY 813.6 Audience General We've got this

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