The Wake and the Manuscript

by Ansgar Allen

Book Overview

In this brooding and obsessive novel, Ansgar Allen recounts the story of a nameless man who attends a funerary wake with no other distraction than papers that once belonged to the body on display. The deceased considered the papers to be his magnum opus, a text that unraveled everything he had been educated to accept, beginning with the spectre of religion-namely The Church of Christ, Scientist-and ending with the very fabric of educated, civilized...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0999153595
• ISBN13: 9780999153598
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Anti-Oedipus Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"