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Love Chronicles of the Octopodes

Karen An-hwei Lee

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Description:In a dystopic future of unregulated gene editing, a woman named Emily wakes up on the wrong side of the universe as an octopus thanks to rogue “designer genes” run amok. One of thousands of clones generated from a genetic code sequenced from a lock of hair saved from the original Emily Dickinson, the ersatz Emily resembles an octopus but harbors the soul of a human poet and navigates her life in a lagoon as a bumbling “rogue soul” enamored of black spice cake, botanical monographs, and gingerbread recipes, while romanced by personified moonlight.Praise for Love Chronicles of the OctopodesPoet, translator, and novelist Lee (The Maze of Transparencies) shows off all her talents in this singular sci-fi novel… Lee’s confident, graceful, and richly poetic writing expands the strange, dreamlike narrative in all directions at once, like slow outward ripples of water. The result is a lyrical meditation on art, science, and consciousness that readers won’t soon forget.—Publishers WeeklyThe language is plated and dexterous, an exosuit for contemplations that has no trouble craning into the weird shapes they demand. Philosophical, xenosagacious, exquisitely attuned to the soul-kicking improbabilities that animate it, Love Chronicles is a fugitive experiment in confessing the unreal truth of our all-defining displacements.—Ian Dreiblatt, SpamzineKaren An-Hwei Lee, whose marvelous mind gave us Kafka — weird as ever and wonderfully alive — in twenty-first century Los Angeles and then a post-apocalyptic data cloud on a quest for the keys to happiness, outdoes herself with this brilliant head bend of a book. Love Chronicles of the Octopodes chronicles the adventures of one Emily D, octopus extraordinaire whose signal genetic material can be traced back to a certain legendary poet from Amherst but whose verve and swerve are all her own. Which is to say that Emily D is an original. As is Lee. There is no one else at work on the American scene like her.—Laird Hunt, National Book Award finalist and author of ZorrieHave you ever watched the hues of a sleeping octopus shift dreamily from bright chartreuse to ghostly pale blue and from ghostly pale blue to the color of evening skies? If so, the wonder you felt is similar to the wonder you will feel reading Love Chronicles of the Octopodes, every page of which astounds and abounds with dazzling lyricism, narrative innovation, and prose textures movingly evocative of otherworldly sentience. With ingenuity and care, Karen An-hwei Lee incorporates research on cephalopods, black holes, genome editing, and the life and work of Emily Dickinson into sublime experimentations with language and genre. The result is art—and the art is powerfully transformative. To be submerged in the gorgeous songfulness of Karen An-hwei Lee’s science fiction is to find oneself metamorphosing into a novel life form. I woke up from the dreamscapes of this book with exclamation marks in my brain and a new, tentacular, bioluminescent sense of possibility.—Seo-Young Chu, author of Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of RepresentationIs there anyone in the literary universe who quite writes, sounds or undulates like Karen An-Hwei Lee? If David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress were spliced with My Octopus Teacher and Rachel Carson’s Sea Trilogy, it might come close to producing Emily, an inquisitive, “accidental” octopus with a penchant for spice cake and philosophical ruminations on the fate of rogue genomes and the enigma that is our souls. Singular and shimmering.—Lisa Hsiao Chen, author of Activities of Daily LivingWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Love Chronicles of the Octopodes. To get started finding Love Chronicles of the Octopodes, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 236

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Ellipsis Press

Release: 2023

ISBN: 1940400104

Description: In a dystopic future of unregulated gene editing, a woman named Emily wakes up on the wrong side of the universe as an octopus thanks to rogue “designer genes” run amok. One of thousands of clones generated from a genetic code sequenced from a lock of hair saved from the original Emily Dickinson, the ersatz Emily resembles an octopus but harbors the soul of a human poet and navigates her life in a lagoon as a bumbling “rogue soul” enamored of black spice cake, botanical monographs, and gingerbread recipes, while romanced by personified moonlight.Praise for Love Chronicles of the OctopodesPoet, translator, and novelist Lee (The Maze of Transparencies) shows off all her talents in this singular sci-fi novel… Lee’s confident, graceful, and richly poetic writing expands the strange, dreamlike narrative in all directions at once, like slow outward ripples of water. The result is a lyrical meditation on art, science, and consciousness that readers won’t soon forget.—Publishers WeeklyThe language is plated and dexterous, an exosuit for contemplations that has no trouble craning into the weird shapes they demand. Philosophical, xenosagacious, exquisitely attuned to the soul-kicking improbabilities that animate it, Love Chronicles is a fugitive experiment in confessing the unreal truth of our all-defining displacements.—Ian Dreiblatt, SpamzineKaren An-Hwei Lee, whose marvelous mind gave us Kafka — weird as ever and wonderfully alive — in twenty-first century Los Angeles and then a post-apocalyptic data cloud on a quest for the keys to happiness, outdoes herself with this brilliant head bend of a book. Love Chronicles of the Octopodes chronicles the adventures of one Emily D, octopus extraordinaire whose signal genetic material can be traced back to a certain legendary poet from Amherst but whose verve and swerve are all her own. Which is to say that Emily D is an original. As is Lee. There is no one else at work on the American scene like her.—Laird Hunt, National Book Award finalist and author of ZorrieHave you ever watched the hues of a sleeping octopus shift dreamily from bright chartreuse to ghostly pale blue and from ghostly pale blue to the color of evening skies? If so, the wonder you felt is similar to the wonder you will feel reading Love Chronicles of the Octopodes, every page of which astounds and abounds with dazzling lyricism, narrative innovation, and prose textures movingly evocative of otherworldly sentience. With ingenuity and care, Karen An-hwei Lee incorporates research on cephalopods, black holes, genome editing, and the life and work of Emily Dickinson into sublime experimentations with language and genre. The result is art—and the art is powerfully transformative. To be submerged in the gorgeous songfulness of Karen An-hwei Lee’s science fiction is to find oneself metamorphosing into a novel life form. I woke up from the dreamscapes of this book with exclamation marks in my brain and a new, tentacular, bioluminescent sense of possibility.—Seo-Young Chu, author of Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of RepresentationIs there anyone in the literary universe who quite writes, sounds or undulates like Karen An-Hwei Lee? If David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress were spliced with My Octopus Teacher and Rachel Carson’s Sea Trilogy, it might come close to producing Emily, an inquisitive, “accidental” octopus with a penchant for spice cake and philosophical ruminations on the fate of rogue genomes and the enigma that is our souls. Singular and shimmering.—Lisa Hsiao Chen, author of Activities of Daily LivingWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Love Chronicles of the Octopodes. To get started finding Love Chronicles of the Octopodes, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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