- Paperback: 300 pages
- Publisher: Melville House (Sep 1 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1933633301
- ISBN-13: 978-1933633305
- Product Dimensions: 14 x 1.5 x 19 cm
- Shipping Weight: 272 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,637,649 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
In his 27th work of fiction, Guggenheim fellow, National Book Award finalist and Pushcart Prize–winner Dixon explores an affliction that neither he nor his protagonist would seem to know much about: writer's block. Meyer Ostrower is an aging, accomplished fiction writer living in Baltimore who one day finds himself at a loss for words. As he rummages through his past looking for material, the factual events of his existence morph into fiction. The novel is a set of themes and variations on major episodes of Meyer's life, many of them imagined: there is his death, his wife's death, his sister's death, his mother and father's deaths, all in various incarnations, side by side with childhood memories and sexual fantasies. He catalogues a lifetime of injuries (ranging from a stickball scar to a small white mark where his typewriter's line space lever went into his upper eyelid), worries in typical neurotic fashion about his arthritis and his heart, and reflects on the dwindling number of letters in his mailbox. Although writing about writer's block risks relying on a tired conceit, Dixon not only pulls it off, but puts together a series of quirky and powerful vignettes about aging. (Sept.)
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Review
“A hip Saul Bellow.”
—Publishers Weekly
“The American master of the long paragraph.”
—The New York Times
“There is no better chronicler of our antic and anxious age than Stephen Dixon, and if you can read Meyer without recognizing yourself in its pages, I want some of whatever it is that you’re smoking.”
—Daniel Handler(aka Lemony Snicket)
—Publishers Weekly
“The American master of the long paragraph.”
—The New York Times
“There is no better chronicler of our antic and anxious age than Stephen Dixon, and if you can read Meyer without recognizing yourself in its pages, I want some of whatever it is that you’re smoking.”
—Daniel Handler(aka Lemony Snicket)
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5.0 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews)
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Moving and readable., Nov 22 2007
By J. LIN - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Meyer (Paperback)
I enjoyed this book. It focuses on death, old people, and thinking about the past in concrete, direct, and very readable sentences. I liked this book maybe more than any other books by Stephen Dixon, though I have liked every book I've read by him. It was moving and I felt emotional after reading it, and while reading it. Also the least dramatic, unhollywoodish book I have read in a long time.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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You should get to know Meyer, Oct 30 2007
By C. Christophe "gould" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Meyer (Paperback)
If you loved "Phone Rings", Mr Dixon's previous novel, you will not be disappointed by this one. Mr Dixon transforms what may sound like a dull premise (a writer's block) into an exciting novel thanks to great dialogs and lucid thoughts about love, death, the difficulty of aging... It's never boring nor self indulging. Forget Philip Roth, Stephen Dixon is the ONE ! ;-)
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