{"product_id":"9789811109713","title":"The Alan Burns Omnibus: Volume One","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlan Burns was an important voice in a group of experimental writers who came to the fore in Great Britain in the post-World War II era. He worked in multiple genres—essays, interviews, drama, non-fiction, and short fiction—however, his reputation is based primarily on his eight novels, the first four of which are collected in this volume. In \u003cem\u003eBuster\u003c\/em\u003e, Burns recounts the childhood and maturation of Dan Graveson, a middle-class boy who experiences the death of his mother and older brother at a young age and who wanders from one undertaking and profession to another. \u003cem\u003eEurope After the Rain \u003c\/em\u003emoves into a surrealist aesthetic, one in which non sequiturs, the absence of rational motivation, and surprising juxtapositions predominate. \u003cem\u003eCelebrations\u003c\/em\u003e is the first of the “cut-up” novels: Burns visited used bookstores, purchased “good junk fiction,” searched for clichés and folded the pages or cut trenchant phrases and sentences out and reassembled them on a drafting table. The result, he commented, “was a wonderful fragmentation, a chaos of language in which I can find new connections and images of language”. In \u003cem\u003eBabel\u003c\/em\u003e, this technique is taken to an extreme: the novel has no continuous narrative thread and no chapters; pages are arranged in blocks of text separated by white space, and in some cases the text appears to be arranged in newspaper columns or like a concrete poem, with lines that can be read horizontally or vertically. These four novels showcase the inventive and exciting prose innovations of one of Britain’s most daring novelists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eINTRODUCTION BY DAVID W. MADDEN. CONTAINS BUSTER, EUROPE AFTER THE RAIN, CELEBRATIONS, BABEL, AND THE STORY 'WONDERLAND'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VerbivoraciousPress","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47042731737328,"sku":"9789811109713","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789811109713_p0.jpg?v=1763689769","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789811109713","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}