{"product_id":"genoa-9781566893923","title":"Genoa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eGenoa\u003c\/i\u003e] invites us to pass our minds down a new but ancient track, to become, ourselves, both fact and fiction, and to discover something true about the geography of time.\"--William Gass, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGenoa\u003c\/i\u003e is a spectacular confrontation with Melville's work, the journals of Columbus and molecular biology--all folded into a hallucinatory narrative about two brothers and their different paths through the American century.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Much like his great-grandfather, Herman Melville, Paul Metcalf brings an extraordinary diversity of materials into the complex patterns of analogy and metaphor, to affect a common term altogether brilliant in its imagination.\"--Robert Creeley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A unique work of historical and literary imagination, eloquent and powerful. I know of nothing like it.\"--Howard Zinn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1965, \u003ci\u003eGenoa\u003c\/i\u003e is Paul Metcalf's purging of the burden of his relationship to his great-grandfather Herman Melville. In his signature polyphonic style, a storm-tossed Indiana attic becomes the site of a reckoning with the life of Melville; with Columbus, and his myth; and between two brothers--one, an MD who refuses to practice; the other, an executed murderer. Genoa is a triumph, a novel without peer, that vibrates and sings a quintessentially American song.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Metcalf\u003c\/b\u003e (1917-99) was an American writer and the great-grandson of Herman Melville. His three volume \u003ci\u003eCollected Works\u003c\/i\u003e were published by Coffee House Press in 1996.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul Metcalf (1917-1999) was an American writer and the great-grandson of Herman Melville. His three volume \u003ci\u003eCollected Works\u003c\/i\u003e were published by Coffee House Press in 1996.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50356744683794,"sku":"9781566893923","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d08c0c71-96c5-40e4-b78d-4fec2d1a7230.jpg?v=1728312931","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/genoa-9781566893923","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}