The Size of the Universe

By Joseph Cardinale

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573661589
• ISBN13: 9781573661584
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: F2c
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.5"