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But: Life Isn't Like That, Is It?

But: Life Isn't Like That, Is It?

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Availability:In StockContributor:Boff WhalleyPublish date:02/18/25Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:PM PressISBN-13:9798887440897UPC:9798887440897Book Category:Art, Music, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Art & Politics, Essays, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:AnarchismSize:8.74 x 5.98 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SC71E8SZQW

Life's stories are always prone to disruption and digression, thwarting the neat storybook narrative we love so much.

Almost all of our stories follow the same basic pattern: beginning, middle, end: exposition, action and climax. It's a neat and tidy way of telling a story. But life's not like that, is it? Life is not neat and tidy, it doesn't obey the rules. Life's stories--like the stories told here in But, personal and impersonal, historical and contemporary--are punctuated by disruption, derailment, and digression.

Stories where the good guys lose. Stories where the bad girls win. Stories that just stop in the middle. Stories that fizzle out or simply never get going. Stories that don't make sense. Stories that start where they should end and end where they start. Stories that go round in a cyclical loop, forever. Unfinished stories. Unstarted stories. Stories that stutter and mumble, that cough and splutter.

That's what we have here in this book: real stories, that do all of the above. That's why this book is called But. Because the but is there to disrupt the easy normality of the way we tell our stories. This book is a collection of stories about real lives, real people, and real life. Stuttering, wayward, disjointed, funny, ridiculous, and unplanned.


Language:EnglishPublisher:PM PressISBN-13:9798887440897UPC:9798887440897Book Category:Art, Music, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Art & Politics, Essays, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:AnarchismSize:8.74 x 5.98 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SC71E8SZQW
Publisher: PM Press

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