{"product_id":"9781566894081","title":"Genoa: A Telling of Wonders","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eGenoa\u003c\/i\u003e] invites us to pass our minds down a new but ancient track, to become, ourselves, both fact and fiction, and to discover something true about the geography of time.\"—William Gass, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGenoa\u003c\/i\u003e is a spectacular confrontation with Melville's work, the journals of Columbus and molecular biology—all folded into a hallucinatory narrative about two brothers and their different paths through the American century.\"—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Much like his great-grandfather, Herman Melville, Paul Metcalf brings an extraordinary diversity of materials into the complex patterns of analogy and metaphor, to affect a common term altogether brilliant in its imagination.\"—Robert Creeley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A unique work of historical and literary imagination, eloquent and powerful. I know of nothing like it.\"—Howard Zinn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1965, \u003ci\u003eGenoa\u003c\/i\u003e is Paul Metcalf's purging of the burden of his relationship to his great-grandfather Herman Melville. In his signature polyphonic style, a storm-tossed Indiana attic becomes the site of a reckoning with the life of Melville; with Columbus, and his myth; and between two brothers—one, an MD who refuses to practice; the other, an executed murderer. Genoa is a triumph, a novel without peer, that vibrates and sings a quintessentially American song.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Metcalf\u003c\/b\u003e (1917–99) was an American writer and the great-grandson of Herman Melville. His three volume \u003ci\u003eCollected Works\u003c\/i\u003e were published by Coffee House Press in 1996.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47146553508080,"sku":"9781566894081","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781566894081_p0.jpg?v=1763773199","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781566894081","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}