{"product_id":"genoa-9781566893923","title":"Genoa","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eGenoa\u003c\/i\u003e] invites us to pass our minds down a new but ancient track, to become, ourselves, both fact and fiction, and to discover something true about the geography of time.--William Gass, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGenoa\u003c\/i\u003e is a spectacular confrontation with Melville's work, the journals of Columbus and molecular biology--all folded into a hallucinatory narrative about two brothers and their different paths through the American century.--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuch like his great-grandfather, Herman Melville, Paul Metcalf brings an extraordinary diversity of materials into the complex patterns of analogy and metaphor, to affect a common term altogether brilliant in its imagination.--Robert Creeley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA unique work of historical and literary imagination, eloquent and powerful. I know of nothing like it.--Howard Zinn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1965, \u003ci\u003eGenoa\u003c\/i\u003e is Paul Metcalf's purging of the burden of his relationship to his great-grandfather Herman Melville. In his signature polyphonic style, a storm-tossed Indiana attic becomes the site of a reckoning with the life of Melville; with Columbus, and his myth; and between two brothers--one, an MD who refuses to practice; the other, an executed murderer. Genoa is a triumph, a novel without peer, that vibrates and sings a quintessentially American song.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Metcalf\u003c\/b\u003e (1917-99) was an American writer and the great-grandson of Herman Melville. His three volume \u003ci\u003eCollected Works\u003c\/i\u003e were published by Coffee House Press in 1996.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coffee House Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781566893923\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paul Metcalf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40843288117429,"sku":"9781566893923","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_32e7c7ef-026e-40bb-a3c8-53055925ef94.jpg?v=1629807744","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/genoa-9781566893923","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}