Little is left to tell
By: Steven Hendricks
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9781938603259
Subjects: Patients; Dementia; Fathers and sons; Fiction
Description: Readers enter a narrative rabbit hole through bedtime stories that Mr. Fin, a man with dementia, conjures for his long-lost son. Virginia the Wolf writes her last novel to lure her daughter home. A rabbit named Hart Crane must eat words to speak, while passing zeppelins drop bombs. Mr. Fin tries to read the past in marginalia and to rebuild his son from boat parts. The haunting fables in this lyrical first novel trace the fictions that make and unmake us.
Notes: "Excerpts from this novel appeared in Brooklyn Rail, Denver Quarterly, Slightly West, and Web Conjunctions."--T.p. verso.