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Flet: A Novel

Flet: A Novel


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"Flet" is set in a spaced-out, delimited future in which all cities have been evacuated after an "Emergency," and is named for its quiescent-but-full-of-agency female protagonist. Flet is an Administration flunky who begins to suspect that the oft-invoked Emergency, after which all public spaces are off-limits, is a tool of sociopolitical manipulation, if not oppression: the decentralized citizenry binge on endless, aimless filetape transmissions drained into their homes. A face-off between this tentative muckraker and her icy superior is set to go down at a mandatory, nationwide Reenactment, in advance of which Flet finds herself dreaming and driving endlessly off the map. Will she find the missing cities, or will she lose herself in the flood-tide of images that wash over the Nation?An elegant entry in the field of speculative fiction, "Flet" finds McSweeney slowing her distinctively hyperactive imagination and syntax down to the speed of narrative.

About the Author :
JOYELLE McSWEENEY is the author of The Red Bird (winner of the 2002 Fence Modern Poets Series Prize) and The Commandrine and Other Poems (2004), and of a companion novel to Flet: Nylund, the Sarcographer (2007). She is a founding editor of Action Books and Action, Yes, a press and web journal for international writing and hybrid forms. McSweeney is a member of the MFA faculty at the University of Notre Dame and lives in Indiana with her husband and daughter.

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"Sometimes you pick up a book and whole damn world opens up at your feet. ...Look, give Flet a try. It's like a bad dream you can put a bookmark in."
--The Agony Column

"If Flet is the dreamscape of 21st century America, its grimly beautiful portent is that the dream can only go deeper, crushing language and the individual under its pressure. There is no waking up."
--Nick Bredie, Tarpaulin Sky

"Featuring a future so bright it's sunburnt, Joyelle McSweeney's exploration of a dystopian land not too dissimilar from our own overwhelms without wearing out its welcome; its overwhelming is part of the point. If anything, the perfect description for the book would either be one of its chapter titles, 'An Optic Parable, ' or, perhaps, Tron as written by Allen Ginsberg."
--Adam O. Davis, Perihelion

"Think Brave New World, 1984, or J. G. Ballard's dark, prophetic sci-fi. Touted on its back cover as 'speculative fiction, ' Joyelle McSweeney's Flet could also be described as a poetic fever dream of the future."
--Amy Gerstler, Bookforum

"A left-wing, sci-fi cautionary allegory on enslavement and the media, its tut-tuts ringing depressingly hollow and familiar--a dangerous, mystical, exalted intonation, a pounding, unremitting, wordplay-driven paean to social and animalistic evolution, particle- and fracture-based existence, cartography, and authorship--a charmingly awkward hipster romance--a brutal psychological study set post-Armageddon: cruel, intimate, blurred in ultra-closeup. Flet shows what Joyelle McSweeney can do; in fact, it shows she can do everything, and in one fell swoop at that."
--Micaela Morrissette, Jacket Magazine


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781934200070
  • Publisher: Fence Magazine Inc, Division of Fence Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Fence Magazine Inc, Division of Fence Books
  • Height: 203 mm
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1934200077
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2007
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: A Novel


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