TY - BOOK AU - Richardson,Marc Anthony TI - Year of the rat SN - 9781573668682 (ebook) AV - PS3618.I34477 U1 - 813/.6 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Tuscaloosa PB - Fiction Collective 2 KW - Artists KW - Fiction KW - Mothers and sons KW - Self-perception KW - Opportunity KW - FICTION / Literary KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Psychological fiction KW - lcgft KW - Domestic fiction KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Palus Epidemiarium; Lacus Oblivionis; Mare Fecunditatis; Mare Nectaris; Mare Tranquillitatis; Lacus Mortis; Mare Crisium; Mare Frigoris; Sinus Amoris; Palus Somni; Oceanus Procellarum; Mare Cognitum; Acknowledgments; Notes N2 - "Winner of FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize In The Year of the Rat, an artist returns to the dystopian city of his birth to tend to his invalid mother, only to find himself torn apart by memories and longings. Narrated by this nameless figure whose rants, reveries, and Rabelaisian escapades take him on a Dantesque descent into himself, the story follows him and his mother as they share a one-bedroom apartment over the course of a year. Despite his mother's precarious health, the lingering memories of a lost love, an incarcerated sibling, a repressed sexuality, and an anarchic inability to support himself, he pursues his dream of becoming an avant-garde artist. His prospects grow dim until a devastating death provides a painful and unforeseeable opportunity. With a voice that is poetic and profane, ethereal and irreverent, cyclical and succinct, he roams from vignette to vignette, creating a polyphonic patchwork quilt of a family portrait"--; "In the novel, Year of the Rat by Marc Anthony Richardson, an artist returns to the city of his birth to tend to his invalid mother, only to find himself torn apart by memories and longings. Narrated by this nameless figure whose rants, reveries, and Rabelaisian escapades take him on a Dantesque descent into himself, the story follows him and his mother as they share a one-bedroom apartment over the course of a year"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1340799 ER -