{"product_id":"sorcererer-9798410926799","title":"Sorcererer","description":"\u003cb\u003eSchism Press\u003c\/b\u003e presents \u003ci\u003eSorcererer, \u003c\/i\u003ea novel by Jace Brittain. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"O! I loved this feverish yarn set in the cartilaginous environs of the ear and\/or the mucilaginous environs of the Menlo Sanitorium, where patient Felix has collapsed on the footpath, attended by a clutch of snails. Part speculative Walser biography, part fan-fic of the Schumann-Brahms-Schumann love triangle, part dime-store mystery about a lost volume in a spooky library, part late-nite documentary on the lives of snails, this batty, brainy book has something for everyone.\"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eJoyelle McSweeney, author of \u003ci\u003eToxicon and Arachne\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sharp, grimly comic, vertiginous, extraordinary in its myriad misbehavings, Jace Brittain's \u003ci\u003eSorcererer \u003c\/i\u003ecelebrates the illegibility of the body, the mind, and language within a librarial architectonics designed by Borges and described by Beckett to Leslie Scalapino on a stroll through Heraclitus's garden, or, as one of its protagonists proclaims: 'stay vim stay vigor.' Brittain's un-novel announces the arrival of an important new voice in the post-genre wilderness.\"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eLance Olsen, author of \u003ci\u003eMy Red Heaven \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSkin Elegies\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Jace Brittain's thickly spare, indelibly sticky prose spirals at the \"final edge of heliotropic civilization,\" gooping the horizon line between history and illusion. All across \u003ci\u003eSorcererer's \u003c\/i\u003epages, the ailing body of western knowledge coughs up its secrets and myths, its fatal false promises. This is an unbecoming book, a book of slime-enciphered messages, language fluxing from the sentences' cracked shells. Read \u003ci\u003eSorcererer \u003c\/i\u003ewith the slowness of snails, with your feelers, backwards and forwards. Leave your own oozy traces on the patterns you find.\"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eJoanna Ruocco, author of \u003ci\u003eDan \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eField Glass\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSorcererer \u003c\/i\u003ecollects a network of interconnected prose poems (a system of constant meaning \/ messages of constant noise) into a singular housing. At first this might appear as a means to ease the reader's transition from one segment to the next, but in reality it lures them into an occulted maze of death--rendered animate by plosive displays and an arcane lexicon.\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eMike Corrao, author of \u003ci\u003eGut Text \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSpelunker\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51201470857490,"sku":"9798410926799","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0a97a118-b476-4738-aa60-8e02745f279d.jpg?v=1744912985","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sorcererer-9798410926799","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}