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Title: Open City Number Five : Change or Die by David Foster Wallace, Mary Gaitkill, Irvine Welsh ISBN: 1-890447-16-1 Publisher: Open City Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: These tiny exceptions
Comment: How is it that the Final Opus of Leon Solomon is out of print in both hardcover and paperback?
The book's author, Jerome Badanes, died halfway through the sequel to The Final Opus of Leon Solomon. What he had written, and revised himself, was a pretty amazing 100 page novella called Change or Die which appears in Issue number #5 of Open City in its entirety.
It is always a peculiar thing when you take a piece of writing that has so much peculiar character and substance, and lump it in with all the other stuff that happens to comprise that issue of the magazine.
This issue has some absurd wild cards - when seen in the light of its central feature, "Change or Die," - such as an Irvine Welsh story he wrote shortly after completely Trainspotting, and this wonderful piece of non-sense that Delmore Schwartz wrote about T.S. Eliot's anti-Semitism. That is the one interesting thematic thread in this issue--Both Shwartz and the academic protagonist of Change or Die (a man trying to recover from Shakespeare,) have a certain lovely fatedness about them.
And Change or Die has one of my favorite short lead sentences:
"The Blik family was a dream and an education."
What a great beginning to such a great story!
(And what a concise and honest use of the short sentence, which has been bastardized and beaten up on any number of fronts, from Hemingway imitators to the cold pragmatism of news providers).
If this whole computer as a means to shop for books is to have any good side, then it is that finding a book like, "The Final Opus of Leon Solomon," or getting your hands on the novella "Change of Die" is something you MUST GET! If only to make use of the fact that you are sitting in front of a computer and perusing.
Jerome Badanes. He is coming back in the only way he can.
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Title: Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (Great Discoveries) by David Foster Wallace ISBN: 0393003388 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Oblivion : Stories by David Foster Wallace ISBN: 0316919810 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 08 June, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries) by Stephen Burn ISBN: 082641477X Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Review of Contemporary Fiction (Spring 1996): The Future of Fiction, A Forum Edited by David Foster Wallace by John O'Brien, David Foster Wallace ISBN: 156478097X Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title: Platform: A Novel by Michel Houellebecq, Frank Wynne ISBN: 0375414622 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 15 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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