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Four New Messages

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ISBN-10: 1555976182

ISBN-13: 9781555976187

Edition: N/A

Authors: Joshua Cohen

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A quartet of audacious fictions that capture the pathos and absurdity of life in the age of the internet A spectacularly talented young writer has returned from the present withFour New Messages, urgent and visionary dispatches that seek to save art, sex, and even alienation from corporatism and technology run rampant. In "Emission," a hapless drug dealer in Princeton is humiliated when a cruel co-ed exposes him exposing himself on a blog gone viral. "McDonald's" tells of a frustrated pharmaceutical copywriter whose imaginative flights fail to bring solace because of a certain word he cannot put down on paper. In "The College Borough" a father visiting NYU with his daughter remembers a…    
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Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Publication date: 8/7/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.39" wide x 8.20" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Joshua Cohen is Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society at Stanford University, and a member of the faculty of Apple University. He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than 25 books. His most recent books are Philosophy, Politics, Democracy (2009); The Arc of the Moral Universe (2011); and Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals (2012). Since 1991, Cohen has been editor of the Boston Review.