The Obituary
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Product Details
Author:
Gail Scott
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
220
Publisher:
Nightboat Books (May 8, 2012)
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9781937658038
ISBN-10:
1937658031
Weight:
10.4oz
Dimensions:
5.5" x 8.5"
File:
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Folder:
CONSORTIUM
List Price:
$15.95
Case Pack:
28
As low as:
$13.72
Publisher Identifier:
P-PER
Discount Code:
C
Country of Origin:
United States
Pub Discount:
60
Imprint:
Nightboat Books
Overview
In order to traverse a city where identity is tagged by accent, Rosine, Gail Scott’s part-Indigenous protagonist, performs an ever-shifting amalgam, ventriloquizing often suspect voices, both contemporaneous and ancestral. Her inability to claim a legacy becomes a trajectory of disjunctions where place, language, and race are lived through in the most detailed ways, fostering schisms that challenge what narrative has come to mean under the rubric of the “novel.” Though a mystery, possibly involving murder, The Obituary is less a whodunit than an investigation of who speaks when “one” speaks.
