{"product_id":"event-factory-9780984469307","title":"Event Factory","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"More Kafka than Kafka, Renee Gladman's achievement ranks alongside many of Borges' in its creation of a fantastical landscape with deep psychological impact.\" --Jeff VanderMeer \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A \"linguist-traveler\" arrives by plane to Ravicka, a city of yellow air in which an undefined crisis is causing the inhabitants to flee. Although fluent in the native language, she quickly finds herself on the outside of every experience. Things happen to her, events transpire, but it is as if the city itself, the performance of life there, eludes her. Setting out to uncover the source of the city's erosion, she is beset by this other crisis--an ontological crisis--as she struggles to retain a sense of what is happening. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eEvent Factory\u003c\/i\u003e is the first in a series of novels (also available are the second, \u003ci\u003eThe Ravickians\u003c\/i\u003e; the third, \u003ci\u003eAna Patova Crosses a Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e; and the fourth, \u003ci\u003eHouses of Ravicka\u003c\/i\u003e) that Renee Gladman is writing about the invented city-state of Ravicka, a foreign \"other\" place fraught with the crises of American urban experience, not least the fundamental problem of how to move through the world at all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dorothy a Publishing Project\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780984469307\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.90h x 5.50w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/13\/2010\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Renee Gladman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41614394884277,"sku":"9780984469307","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_414e6b17-018b-44e3-90ff-b1b082ff5599.jpg?v=1644900392","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/event-factory-9780984469307","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}