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 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. In Duplex, Kathryn Davis, whom
the Chicago Tribune has called “one of the most
inventive novelists at work today,” has created a
coming-of-age story like no other. 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.
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