Graywolf Press
September 2013
On Sale: September 3, 2013
220 pages ISBN: 1555976530 EAN: 9781555976538 Kindle: B00CQY9CPM Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Time, place, and mind all bend in extraordinary ways in this new novel from the acclaimed author of The Thin Place and Versailles
Mary and Eddie are meant for each otherβbut 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 sorcererβs car will speed down Maryβs 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. In Duplex, Kathryn Davis, whom the Chicago Tribune has called βone of the most inventive novelists at work today,β has created a coming-of-age story like no other. Once you enter the duplexβthat magical hinge between past and future, human and robot, space and timeβthereβs no telling where you might come out.
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