Duplex
Subtitle: a novel
By: Kathryn Davis
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781555976538
Subjects: Magic; Space and time; Fiction
Description: "Mary and Eddie are meant for each other-- but love is no guarantee, not in these suburbs. Like all children, they exist in an eternal present; time is imminent, and the adults of the street live in their assorted houses like numbers on a clock. Meanwhile ominous rumors circulate, and the increasing agitation of the neighbors points to a future in which all will be lost. Soon, a sorcerer's car will speed down Mary's street, and as past and future fold into each other, the resonant parenthesis of her girlhood will close forever. Beyond is adulthood, a world of robots and sorcerers, slaves and masters, bodies without souls. Once you enter the duplex-- that magical hinge between past and future, human and robot, space and time-- there's no telling where you might come out" -- from publisher's web site.