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I found your address in a fortune cookie : a novel

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I found your address in a fortune cookie : a novel

Goldstein, Jonathan (1999) I found your address in a fortune cookie : a novel. Masters thesis, Concordia University.

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I Found Your Address in a Fortune Cookie is a short novel documenting a man's life from childhood to death-bed. It is structured as a series of fragments that, while not strictly chronological, play off one another to create an emotional landscape. The narrative voice shifts between the first and third person. Although going about his life with the semblance of routine, Joshua, the protagonist, is thirsting for something unnamable. His desire runs from mundane, sensual pleasures like lying in bed or drinking coffee to desires for which there are no easy names, like the desire to escape the body. The novel is composed of a series of romantic relationships that span Joshua's early adolescence to his middle age. Approaching death, he withdraws into a dream world in which the messiah has arrived; but even salvation offers little in the way of providing a bottom line to existence. The messianic age proves only to be a continuance of the mundane.

Divisions:Concordia University > Faculty of Arts and Science > English
Item Type:Thesis (Masters)
Authors:Goldstein, Jonathan
Pagination:iv, 152 leaves ; 29 cm.
Institution:Concordia University
Degree Name:M.A.
Program:Dept. of English
Date:1999
Thesis Supervisor(s):Allen, Robert
Identification Number:PS 8563 O55I22 1999
ID Code:840
Deposited By: Concordia University Library
Deposited On:27 Aug 2009 17:14
Last Modified:13 Jul 2020 19:47
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