{"product_id":"houses-of-ravicka-9780997366662","title":"Houses of Ravicka","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 Since 2010 writer and artist Renee Gladman has placed fantastic and philosophical stories in the invented city-state of Ravicka, a Ruritanian everyplace with its own gestural language, poetic architecture, and inexplicable physics. As Ravicka has grown, so has Gladman's project, spilling out from her fiction--\u003ci\u003eEvent Factory\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Ravickians\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAna Patova Crosses a Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e--into her nonfiction (\u003ci\u003eCalamities\u003c\/i\u003e) and even visual art (\u003ci\u003eProse Architectures\u003c\/i\u003e). The result is a project unlike any other in American letters today, a fictional world that spans not only multiple books but different genres, even different art forms. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eHouses of Ravicka\u003c\/i\u003e, the city's comptroller, author of \u003ci\u003eRegulating the Book of Regulations\u003c\/i\u003e, seems to have lost a house. It is not where it's supposed to be, though an invisible house on the far side of town, which corresponds to the missing house, remains appropriately invisible. Inside the invisible house, a nameless Ravickian considers how she came to the life she is living, and investigates the deep history of Ravicka--that mysterious city-country born of Renee Gladman's philosophical, funny, audacious, extraordinary imagination.\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\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780997366662\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.90h x 5.40w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/02\/2017\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Renee Gladman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41614536147125,"sku":"9780997366662","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_8dfba754-0f27-46f0-afc9-924ab98785cf.jpg?v=1644902103","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/houses-of-ravicka-9780997366662","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}