In The Age of Wire and String Ben Marcus welds together a new reality from the scrapheap of the past. Dogs, birds, horses, automobiles, and the weather are some of the recycled elements in Marcus's first collection - part fiction, part handbook - as familiar objects take on markedly unfamiliar meanings. Gradually, this makeshift world, in its defiance of the laws of physics and language, finds a foundation in its own implausibility, as Marcus produces new feelings and sensations - both comic and disturbing - in the definitive guide to an unpredictable yet exhilarating plane of existence.
- ISBN10 184708639X
- ISBN13 9781847086396
- Publish Date 2 May 2013 (first published 31 October 1995)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Granta Books
- Format eBook
- Language English