The Size of the Universe

Fiction & Literature
Cover of the book The Size of the Universe by Joseph Cardinale, University of Alabama Press
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Author: Joseph Cardinale ISBN: 9781573668200
Publisher: University of Alabama Press Publication: October 7, 2010
Imprint: Fiction Collective 2 Language: English
Author: Joseph Cardinale
ISBN: 9781573668200
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Publication: October 7, 2010
Imprint: Fiction Collective 2
Language: English

The landscape of this novel in stories—Joseph Cardinale’s first book-length work of fiction—is as familiar as childhood yet beguilingly surreal. The question of whether or not the child in the first fiction and the man in the last story are the same person—and whether any person is the same from one moment to the next—is perhaps the book’s main question.

In prose as spare as it is meticulous, The Size of the Universe conjures an elegant labyrinth of time, space, and memory, in which a wavering self, a self on the verge of becoming nothing, seeks a safe haven from the throes of near-religious ecstasy. It is a debut work that is inviting, perplexing, and bold.

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The landscape of this novel in stories—Joseph Cardinale’s first book-length work of fiction—is as familiar as childhood yet beguilingly surreal. The question of whether or not the child in the first fiction and the man in the last story are the same person—and whether any person is the same from one moment to the next—is perhaps the book’s main question.

In prose as spare as it is meticulous, The Size of the Universe conjures an elegant labyrinth of time, space, and memory, in which a wavering self, a self on the verge of becoming nothing, seeks a safe haven from the throes of near-religious ecstasy. It is a debut work that is inviting, perplexing, and bold.

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