Patchwork

By Tom Comitta

Book Overview

Tom Comitta returns with a novella that is at once a picaresque quest for a stolen snuffbox and a marvel of literary d coupage, equal parts love story, old-fashioned thriller, and absurdist romp.

To whom does a story belong? Who is its author? What is an author? Does it matter? These questions and more populate the subversive and audacious Patchwork, a comical tragedy that highlights the connective tissue that joins stories to themselves as well as to the grand history of storytelling itself. Celebrating the tropes and clich s of classical novels while simultaneously forging them into an original narrative, Patchwork ultimately shows us that the stories produced by hundreds of writers past--celebrated or obscure, reverent or hilarious, factual or fantastical--may, in the hands of a master, become a single, seamless whole.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566897297
• ISBN13: 9781566897297
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 7.4"