Silver
- Publisher
- Insomniac Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 1998
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781895837230
- Publish Date
- Apr 1998
- List Price
- $18.99
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Where to buy it
Out of print
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Description
Matthew Remski's second novel, Silver, is an absurdist eulogy for the 20th century with a cast of thousands, including Leni Riefenstahl, Dorothy Stratten, J.P. Morgan, the Silver Surfer, Bob Barker, and the Dalai Lama, with cameos by a born-again - dead-again Jesus Christ. Half cartoon and half ritual, Silver asks: Does photography murder us? Is reality itself pornographic? Was Christ's tomb the first pinhole camera? How did television become the mental spin-cycle of North American society? Will Bob Barker lead his audience to spiritual enlightenment through Sanka-induced hallucinations? Why do we feel dead?
About the author
Matthew Remski is an ayurvedic therapist and educator who lives in Toronto and on Cortes Island, B.C. in 1993 he founded The Scream in High Park. In 1994 he won the bpnichol Chapbook Award for organon. He has published two novels: Dying for Veronica (1997) and Silver (1998). He is co-founder of Yoga Community Toronto, and co-author, with Scott Petrie, of the ongoing poetical-spiritual-criticism-prayer yoga 2.0. This is his first book length publication in 12 years.