Praise:
“Peter Adolphsen has accomplished a leap up to a new, heretofore unseen level…A century grows out of these little pages, the stone gives resonance. Rarely has there been so much in so little space.” – Politiken (Denmark)
“Adolphsen can be read again and again without losing his effect…he weighs the words [with] precision and formulates his sentences with subtle elegance. His texts unite clarity of thought with the lightness of humor, and—even more importantly—they constantly surprise. Even when he is silly, he is wise, and you can never predict what is waiting beyond the next full stop.” – Information (Denmark)
Machine
By Peter Adolphsen
April 25, 2008ISBN: 978-1-59692-287-7
Format: Hardcover Genre: Fiction Pages: 150
Price: $15.00 Rights: U.S. Other Rights: Harvill Secker U.K.
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About the Book
A small book that tackles one of life’s great mysteries: where does fate end and coincidence begin? Fifty-five million years ago, a sudden burst of lightning frightened a herd of small prehistoric horses. In the ensuing panic, one of the horses, a five-year-old mare no bigger than a fox terrier, fell into a lake and drowned.
On June 23, 1975, in Austin, Texas, a drop of oil combusted in a car engine. This tiny explosion happened just as the Ford Pinto, driven by a one-armed hitchhiker named Jimmy, pulled into the parking lot of the Timber Creek Apartments, home to the young woman in the passenger’s seat, a twenty-two-year-old biology student named Clarissa Sanders.
The lyrical and fantastical story of how these two seemingly unrelated events are actually connected, Machine is a daring mix of fact and fiction, of science and art.
About the Author
Peter Adolphsen was born and raised in Denmark and has spent periods in Vienna, Austria, and Green Bay, Wisconsin. After incomplete studies in experimental theater, sculpture, literature, and Arabic, he graduated from the Danish Writers’ School in 1995. He is the author of several short novels that have been translated into seven languages, and he received the three-year Work Grant from the Danish State in 2003. Adolphsen is currently at work on his next book.
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