How to disappear : a memoir for misfits
(Book)
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Published
Madison, Wis. : Terrace Books, c2013.
ISBN
9780299292409 (cloth : alk. paper), 0299292401 (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 20 cm.
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Newton - Adult | 823.09 F196 .FA 2013 | On Shelf |
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Published
Madison, Wis. : Terrace Books, c2013.
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
9780299292409 (cloth : alk. paper), 0299292401 (cloth : alk. paper)
UPC
40022471764
Notes
General Note
Originally published: London : Ditto Press, 2011.
Description
Duncan Fallowell sets out to odd corners of the world in pursuit of some extraordinary and improbable characters who were in most cases momentarily famous{u2014}or infamous{u2014}and then simply disappeared. The first to disappear is the author himself{u2014}to a ghostly hotel on a Mediterranean island. His subjects, though unmet or hardly met, live for the reader with remarkable vividness, such as the German artist who bought a large island in the Hebrides and vanished immediately afterward, to the astonishment of its inhabitants. Fallowell tracks down the recluse who inspired Evelyn Waugh's creation Sebastian Flyte, the legendary love object of Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited, who wants both to forget the past and to cling to it. He even pursues the ultimate disappearance{u2014}the death of Princess Diana{u2014}and the miasma of shock, wonder, and grief that followed, writing "Mystification is absolutely essential to our feeling of being alive." In these highly original adventures, How to Disappear winds through the eerie abyss that can open up between someone{u2014}or something{u2014}being both real and phantom.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Fallowell, D. (2013). How to disappear: a memoir for misfits . Terrace Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Fallowell, Duncan. 2013. How to Disappear: A Memoir for Misfits. Terrace Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Fallowell, Duncan. How to Disappear: A Memoir for Misfits Terrace Books, 2013.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Fallowell, Duncan. How to Disappear: A Memoir for Misfits Terrace Books, 2013.
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