A Gesture Through Time

By Elizabeth Block

Elizabeth Block'ss debut novel, A Gesture through Time (written under fiscal sponsorship of Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, selected as a 1997 Heekin Foundation first novel fellowship... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933132132
• ISBN13: 9781933132136
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.3" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

A Gesture Through Time

A Gesture Through Time is a remarkable book. Somehow, Elizabeth Block achieves a complex,contradictory,"experimenting" story that actually gave me a new, unique experience in reading. While the writing is muscular, solid, clear and intelligent, the structure is wild, inventive and risky, and amazingly energetic. The narrator is passed from one to the other between the characters Sarah, Hortense, and Elizabeth, yet with each looking so far inward, the book reads as cinematically outward. In the middle, the book dissolves into a flipbook by Elizabeth, and at end, the narrator sort of falls off and out of the verbal story and becomes a tragic/comic strip of visual images by Evri Kwong. Reading A Gesture Through Time is like riding a bullet passing through a kaleidoscope. I felt thoroughly turned inside out and back again by the end. (*Robert Young calls A Gesture Through Time "a rare and sparkling find" ------ http://www.thebrooklynrail.org/archives/SEPTEMBER2005/index.html-) look it up!