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Paperback How to Read a Moment: The American Novel and the Crisis of the Present Volume 38 Book

ISBN: 0810143429

ISBN13: 9780810143425

How to Read a Moment: The American Novel and the Crisis of the Present Volume 38

(Part of the FlashPoints Series)

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In How to Read a Moment, Mathias Nilges shows that time is inseparable from the stories we tell about it, demonstrating that the contemporary American novel offers new ways to make sense of the temporality that governs our present.

"Time is a thing that grows scarcer every day," observes one of Don DeLillo's characters. "The future is gone," The Baffler argues. "Where's my hoverboard ?" a meme demands. Contemporary capitalism,...

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