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The Literal Truth - (VIA Folios) by Mark Ciabattari (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Fiction.
- Author(s): Mark Ciabattari
- 152 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
- Series Name: VIA Folios
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In the second collection of vignettes featuring middle-aged New Yorker Rizzoli, Ciabattari skillfully captures the nature of dreams, using a mixture of reality and surrealism to reveal our common fears and desires. [...] The dreams are sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, and sometimes horrifying but always thought-provoking. -Library JournalBook Synopsis
Fiction. Italian American Studies. In the second collection of vignettes featuring middle-aged New Yorker Rizzoli, Ciabattari skillfully captures the nature of dreams, using a mixture of reality and surrealism to reveal our common fears and desires... The dreams are sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, and sometimes horrifying but always thought-provoking.--Library Journal
Review Quotes
More critical acclaim for Mark Ciabattari
"A paean to the special 'city grace' that prevails amid chaos, Ciabattari's clever and cartoonish novel is a delightful postmodern romp, more Calvino than Kafka."
--Kirkus Reviews
"A delightfully improbable blending of Borges and Woody Allen."
--Booklist
"Rizzoli is an anxious anti-hero . . . an urban everyman. [His] . . . funny, satirical, vignette-like dreams [show] the influence of media on our perception and point to our mediated lives . . ."
--Lynne Tillman, The New York Times Book Review
"With unerring irony, Ciabattari paints a shimmering, disorienting world in which the lines between dreams and reality are systematically skewed."
--Publishers Weekly