The Water Statues History At first glance

At first glance

this award-winning volume confirms Allan Gurganus as one of the finest writers of our time

The poems are equally clownish and fuck-offish

Although he rejects Progress

famed for the minimalist and unsettling quality of his writing

The Water Statues History At first glanceTitle: The Water Statues Author: Fleur Jaeggy ISBN: 9780811229753 Publisher: New Directions Published: 2021 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: Even among Fleur Jaeggy's singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with loneliness and wealth's odd emotional poverty, this early novel is in part structured as a play: the dramatis personae include