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Patchwork
- Author
- Tom Comitta
- Narrator
- Mike Lenz
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Publish Date
- 19 August 2025
- Run Time
- 4 hours 10 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
To whom does a story belong? Who is its author? What is an author? Does it matter? These questions and more populate the subversive and audacious Patchwork, a comical tragedy that highlights the connective tissue that joins stories to themselves as well as to the grand history of storytelling itself. Celebrating the tropes and clichés of classical novels while simultaneously forging them into an original narrative, Patchwork ultimately shows us that the stories produced by hundreds of writers past—celebrated or obscure, reverent or hilarious, factual or fantastical—may, in the hands of a master, become a single, seamless whole.
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Details
- Author
- Tom Comitta
- Narrator
- Mike Lenz
- Duration
- 4 hours 10 minutes
- Release Date
- 19 August 2025
- ISBN
- 9781696620987
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
Tom Comitta returns with a novella that is at once a picaresque quest for a stolen snuffbox and a marvel of literary découpage, equal parts love story, old-fashioned thriller, and absurdist romp.To whom does a story belong? Who is its author? What is an author? Does it matter? These questions and more populate the subversive and audacious Patchwork, a comical tragedy that highlights the connective tissue that joins stories to themselves as well as to the grand history of storytelling itself. Celebrating the tropes and clichés of classical novels while simultaneously forging them into an original narrative, Patchwork ultimately shows us that the stories produced by hundreds of writers past—celebrated or obscure, reverent or hilarious, factual or fantastical—may, in the hands of a master, become a single, seamless whole.
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