Contrived WorldJung Young-Moon,Jung Young-MoonPublisher: Dalkey Archive PressJune 24 2016EAN: 9781564789556ISBN: 1564789551Items marked as WAREHOUSE may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.Synopsis: Set in San Francisco, A Most Contrived World recounts the author's visit to the mythic Californian city. While the novel is based in this real experience, the narrator's imaginative reflections cause the narrative to balloon outward into the realms of fiction and fantasy. Each chance encounter provides an opportunity to unfurl a fictional world that simultaneously complements and compromises the real world. In this mirthful anti-novel, the ambiguous fusion of observation and invention disrupts the conventions of personal memoir and travel writing, resulting in a chronicle that sets fiction against experience.
