Description
A prismatic, imaginative exploration of David Bowie's last days
An intricate collage-novel fusing and confusing fact and imagination, Always Crashing in the Same Car is a prismatic exploration of David Bowie through multiple voices and perspectives--the protean musician himself, an academic trying to compose a critical monograph about him, friends, lovers, musicologists, and others in Bowie's orbit.
At its core beat questions about how we read others, how we are read by them, how (if at all) we can tell the past with something even close to accuracy, what it feels like being the opposite of young and still committed to bracing, volatile innovation.
Set during Bowie's last months--those during which he worked on his acclaimed final album Black Star while battling liver cancer and the consequences of a sixth heart attack--yet washing back and forth across his exhilarating, kaleidoscopically costumed life, Always Crashing in the Same Car enacts a poetics of impermanence, of art, of love, of truth, even of death, that apparently most permanent of conditions.
Author: Lance Olsen
Publisher: F2c
Published: 02/14/2023
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.62d
ISBN13: 9781573661997
ISBN10: 1573661996
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
About the Author
Lance Olsen is professor of literature and creative writing at the University of Utah. He is author of more than 30 works of innovative fiction, including Skin Elegies, My Red Heaven, and Calendar of Regrets.