by Joseph Cardinale
University of Alabama Press, 2010
Paper: 978-1-57366-158-4 | eISBN: 978-1-57366-820-0
Library of Congress Classification PS3603.A7353S59 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.6

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

The landscape of this novel in stories—Joseph Cardinale’s first book-length work of fiction—is as familiar as childhood yet beguilingly surreal. The question of whether or not the child in the first fiction and the man in the last story are the same person—and whether any person is the same from one moment to the next—is perhaps the book’s main question.


In prose as spare as it is meticulous, The Size of the Universe conjures an elegant labyrinth of time, space, and memory, in which a wavering self, a self on the verge of becoming nothing, seeks a safe haven from the throes of near-religious ecstasy. It is a debut work that is inviting, perplexing, and bold.



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