Danielle Dutton’s Literary Novel ‘Sprawl’

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Wave Books (paperback, 2018)

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“SPRAWL in fact does not sprawl at all; rather, it radiates with control and fresh, strange reflection.” —Bookforum

“Reads as if Gertrude Stein channeled Alice B. Toklas writing an Arcades Project set in contemporary suburbia.” —The Believer

When Danielle Dutton’s SPRAWL first broke upon the world in 2010, critics likened it to collage, a poetics of the suburbs, a literal unpacking of et cetera. This updated edition, with a new afterword by Renee Gladman, reopens the space of SPRAWL‘s “fierce, careful composition”–as Bookforum wrote–“which changes the ordinary into the wonderful and odd.”

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