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The Conversions

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by Harry Mathews
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Availability:In StockContributor:Harry Mathews, Ed Park (Introduction by)Publish date:11/4/2025Pages:200
Language:EnglishPublisher:Dalkey Archive PressISBN-13:9781628976304ISBN-10:1628976306UPC:9781628976304Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Absurdist, Science FictionBook Topic:Crime & MysterySize:8.00 x 5.25 x 0.41 inchesWeight:0.4211Product ID:SC2QYKCDM8

The Conversions

A remarkable and unusual novel by "one of the most remarkable prose stylist presently writing in English." -The San Francisco Chronicle


At a dinner party hosted by a wealthy New Yorker, a guest receives an ancient golden weapon as a prize. When the mysterious host of this party dies the next day, his fortune is left to whomever it was that received the prize at the party. The only requirement: the...


Language:EnglishPublisher:Dalkey Archive PressISBN-13:9781628976304ISBN-10:1628976306UPC:9781628976304Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Absurdist, Science FictionBook Topic:Crime & MysterySize:8.00 x 5.25 x 0.41 inchesWeight:0.4211Product ID:SC2QYKCDM8

Harry Mathews was born in New York City in 1930 and spent his adult life in the United States and in France, where he co-founded the influential journal Locus Solus with John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler in 1961. He was the first American member of the literary consortium Oulipo, alongside Raymond Queneau, Italo Calvino, and Georges Perec. His many writings, spanning novels, short...

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

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Harry Mathews, Ed Park (Introduction by)

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Harry Mathews

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