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The Book of Beginnings and Endings

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The third collection from this thrillingly innovative master of the lyric essay.
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“Jenny is the future of nonfiction in America. What an absurdly arrogant statement to make. I make it anyway. Watch.”—John D’Agata

“Yes, Aristotle, there can be pleasure without ‘complete and unified action with a beginning, middle, and end.’ Jenny Boully has done it.”—Mary Jo Bang

A book with only beginnings and endings, all invented. Jenny Boully opens and closes more than fifty topics ranging from physics and astronomy to literary theory and love. A brilliant statement on interruption, impermanence, and imperfection.

Jenny Boully is the author of The Body: An Essayand [one love affair]*. Born in Thailand, she currently divides her time between Texas and Brooklyn.

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Price: $16.95
Pages: 128
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Imprint: Sarabande Books
Publication Date: 01 November 2007
Trim Size: 9.10 X 6.10 in
ISBN: 9781932511550
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, POETRY / American / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Mashups
Boully is the author of The Body:An Essay (Slope Editions, 2002) and [one love affair]* (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2006). Born in Thailand, she studied at Hollins University and the University of Notre Dame and is currently a PhD Candidate at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She divides her time between Brooklyn and Texas.