I had good fun with paul glennons the dodecahedron. Things couldnt be duller until norman finds himself in the middle of the adventure. The new short story collection from kevin brockmeier, the view from the seventh layer, is difficult to pigeonhole for these stories defy ready classification. Oct 10, 2006 the dodecahedron, in brief its been months since i read the dodecahedron, or a frame for frames. Click download or read online button to the dodecahedron book pdf for free now. Definition from paul glennon s the dodecahedron or a frame for frames. Paul glennon lives and works in ottawa where he writes metafiction for adults and children. A couple years ago, i would have said and did say anything by patrick hamilton. The discovery of the great dodecahedron is sometimes credited to louis poinsot in 1810, though there is a drawing of something very similar to a great dodecahedron in the 1568 book perspectiva corporum regularium by wenzel jamnitzer. The dodecahedron or a frame for frames by paul glennon. With its spirit of adventure, bookweirder courts new readers and keeps malcolm and normans devoted fans captivated. Not strictly genre fiction nor completely science fiction, the author describes the collection thus.
His collection of linked stories the dodecahedron was nominated for a governor generals award and named as a globe and mail top 100 book for 2007. Author paul glennon compares them to a short story cycle, of sorts. Paul glennon s the dodecahedron was one of the last books that i recommended to just about everyone i knew. The dodecahedron, or, a frame for frames book, 2005. The view from the seventh layer is not strictly or even primarily a work of science fiction. Bookweirder by paul glennon overdrive rakuten overdrive.
Or a frame for frames by paul glennon 2005, paperback at the best online prices at. A true, perfect history of mankind lies elsewhere, inaccessible to man as long as he is led along by his corrupt eyes, touch, hearing, taste, and sense of smell, but perceptible perhaps to the undisturbed motion of the soul. Or a frame for frames by glennon, paul and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. The dodecahedron, in brief its been months since i read the dodecahedron, or a frame for frames. Indeed, one of the most interesting things about glennons highly structured book is. The dodecahedron finished im an mp3 junkie, i admit it. A regular dodecahedron is an intermediate case with equal edge lengths. Luckily glennon provides an afterword to help the reader out. He has an ma from the university of ottawa and currently works as a human factors specialist which means that he attempts to encourage software to work the way humans expect it to.
Images, phrases, characters, and scenarios recur so frequently over these twelve stories that spotting the skewed correspondences becomes a sort of hallucinatory game for the reader, making this wonderful book. Cut out each panel along the circle not the pentagon 3. Punch a hole in one of the flaps and hang up for others to see. Norman jespersvilnius is stuck in the sleepy british countryside with his parents and ultrairritating sister. Or a frame for frames, on librarything librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers home groups talk zeitgeist.
This austere skepticism is not so much balanced as. Paul glennon author paul glennon is the author of the dodecahedron, which was a finalist for the 2006 governor generals literary award for fiction, and was selected as one of the globe and mails 100 best books of the year, as well as bookweird and bookweirder. Or a frame for frames by paul glennon and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. The dodecahedron or a frame for frames quill and quire. Paul glennon the dodecahedron or a frame for frames geoff dyer otherwise known as the human condition geoff dyer working the room geoff dyer paris, trance geoff dyer jeff in venice, death in varanasi rebecca west the essential rebecca west john berger bentos sketchbook margaret atwood the penelopiad. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. The dodecahedron by paul glennon fantastic fiction. In some clippings for my article on machine literature, an interview with the creator of amanuensis, software to create books, we read. This series of twelve interlinked stories, structured like a dodecahedron in which each shares five referential sides with its contiguous stories, and thricerepeated phrases create vertices among storytriads, functions like a giant sudoku puzzle and kept me reaching for my pen and subsequently for my computer to track the appearances and. Soon as i get a new one, its immediately filed away and categorized by release year, decade, and genre.
Twelve narratives, twelve narrators, twelve genres and twelve fictional worlds collide to spectacular effect in paul glennons the dodecahedron, or a frame for. A rhombic dodecahedron is a degenerate case with the 6 crossedges reduced to length zero. With its spirit of adventure, bookweirdest courts new readers and keeps malcolm and normans devoted fans captivated. Images, phrases, characters, and scenarios recur so frequently over these twelve stories that spotting the skewed correspondences becomes a sort of hallucinatory game for the reader, making this wonderful book less a collection or novel of linked stories than a puzzle one. A cube can be divided into a pyritohedron by bisecting all the edges, and faces in alternate directions. May 11, 2011 this austere skepticism is not so much balanced as complicated by a giddy submission to the mystical. Or a frame for frames, and bookweirdest, and more on. Inspired by the deliberate writing constraints of oulipo writers, paul glennon uses a dodecahedron as scaffolding for his collection of short stories the dodecahedron or a frame for frames. Twelve narratives, twelve narrators, twelve genres and twelve fictional worlds collide to spectacular effect in paul glennon s the dodecahedron, or a frame for frames. A platonic solid composed of twelve pentagonal faces, with three meeting at each vertex. The dodecahedron, or a frame for frames by paul glennon. Lame, lamer, lamest approach to the interconnected short story collectionasnovel idea, the main problem not being the potentially interesting storytelling structure itself but the unvarying flat monotone i of the various narrators.
Images, phrases, characters, and scenarios recur so frequently over these twelve stories that spotting the skewed correspondences becomes a sort of hallucinatory game for the reader, making this wonderful book less a collection or novel of linked stories than a puzzle one whose solution remains. Hooked on canadian books distills 25 years of intensive reading ive done the time is how he puts it. The dodecahedron, or, a frame for frames ebook, 2005. Our next keplerpoinsot polyhedron is the great dodecahedron, illustrated at right. Download the dodecahedron ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub, and mobi format. Or a frame for frames book online at best prices in india on. Gurdjieff is the best resource for a deeper understanding of this symbol. This series of twelve interlinked stories, structured like a dodecahedron in which each shares five referential sides with its contiguous stories, and thricerepeated phrases create vertices among storytriads, functions like a giant sudoku puzzle and kept me reaching for my.
Paul glennon, born in england but resident in ottawa since 1975, has been published in descant, matrix, canadian fiction magazine, and the blue penny quarterly. Or a frame for frames by paul glennon from amazons fiction books store. Oct 31, 2012 paul glennons the dodecahedron was one of the last books that i recommended to just about everyone i knew. Before turning his hands to kids books, paul published a collection of stories. Paul glennons the dodecahedron or a frame for frames. Jun 18, 2010 hooked on canadian books distills 25 years of intensive reading ive done the time is how he puts it. Buy the dodecahedron by paul glennon from waterstones today. It has intersecting pentagonal faces indicated by the 5 in the symbol, and each vertex figure is a pentagram 5 2. Norman has woken up in a world that seems a lot like his own. Paul glennon s the dodecahedron and chris eatons the grammar architect. Bookweird by paul glennon overdrive rakuten overdrive. Shop amongst our popular books, including 8, bookweirdest, bookweirder and more from paul glennon. It was bizarre, globetrotting, genrebending, experimental, philosophical, fun, and written for true bibliophiles.
Paul glennons the dodecahedron and chris eatons the grammar architect. Paul glennon twelve narratives, twelve narrators, twelve genres and twelve fictional worlds collide to spectacular effect in paul glennon s the dodecahedron, or a frame for frames. Any whole number divided by 7 will contain the following numeric progression, usually after the decimal. Bookweirdest, the final installment of the bookweird trilogy is now available. Apr 27, 2010 a book that deserves a wider audience. Paul glennon author paul glennon is the author of the dodecahedron, or a frame for frames, which was a finalist for the 2006 governor generals literary award for fiction, and was selected as one of the globe and mails 100 best books of the year. Paul glennon is the author of the dodecahedron, or a frame for frames, which was a finalist for the 2006 governor generals award for fiction and was selected as one of the globe and mails 100 best books of the year. This series of twelve interlinked stories, structured like a dodecahedron in which each shares five referential sides with its contiguous stories, and thricerepeated phrases create vertices among storytriads, functions like a giant sudoku puzzle and kept me reaching for my pen and. The dodecahedron, or a frame for frames evening all afternoon. In the dodecahedron, ottawa author paul glennon has come up with one intriguing answer. Paul glennon s the dodecahedron or a frame for frames. To explain his thinking, glennon uses the metaphor of a dodecahedron. Paul glennon is the author of the dodecahedron, or a frame for frames, which was a finalist for the 2006 governor generals literary award for fiction and was selected as one of the globe and mails 100 best books of the year. Ive started writing about it a number of times, but ive had a heck of a time of it obviously.
To call the dodecahedron paul glennon s second collection would be a little misleading. A few studies have led to the suggestion that these crystal habits can be correlated with chemical compositioni. The dodecahedron or a frame for frames the porcupines quill, 2005 by paul glennon canada, 2005 man, i fucking hated this book. Paul glennon is the author of the dodecahedron, or a frame for frames, which was a finalist for the 2006 governor generals literary award for fiction, and was selected as one of the globe and mails 100 best books of the year. He was a shortlisted nominee for the relit award in 2001 for his short story collection how did you sleep. Ottawa author paul glennon takes the metafictional mode of his ggnominated 2005 novel the dodecahedron and adapts it for young readers in bookweird. The dodecahedron or a frame for frames by paul glennon times. Twelve narratives, twelve narrators, twelve genres and twelve fictional worlds collide to spectacular effect in paul glennons the dodecahedron, or a frame for frames. Apr 29, 2011 i had good fun with paul glennon s the dodecahedron. Apr 30, 2011 inspired by the deliberate writing constraints of oulipo writers, paul glennon uses a dodecahedron as scaffolding for his collection of short stories the dodecahedron or a frame for frames. Aug 10, 2006 so i will tell you instead about a book i loved, paul glennons the dodecahedron yes, i mentioned it months ago. He won a sunburst award in 2011 for bookweirder, the second book in the. He has an ma from the university of ottawa and currently works as a human.
The concave equilateral dodecahedron, called an endo dodecahedron. Norman has woken up in a world that seems a lot like his own, but with some notable differences. See all books authored by paul glennon, including the dodecahedron. He lives in ottawa, where he works in the software industry. Paul glennon books list of books by author paul glennon. Like a story cycle, each story would cast a new light on the ones that preceded it, and promote novel like unity of themes. He says each chapter was to be as selfcontained and whole as any short story. Download pdf the dodecahedron free online new books in. Elevenyearold norman jespersvilnius somehow upsets the weird by inadvertently eating a page from a fantasy novel he is reading.
Paul glennon twelve narratives, twelve narrators, twelve genres and twelve fictional worlds collide to spectacular effect in paul glennons the dodecahedron, or a frame for frames. Restrict search to only titles where full marc is available. To help keep our communities safe, all our retail locations are temporarily closed until further notice. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders.
Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. The dodecahedron, or a frame for frames is a kaleidoscopic novel. Paul glennon is the author of the award winning bookweird trilogy. The second book from the author of how did you sleep. Book listing the dodecahedron the porcupines quill. I had good fun with paul glennon s the dodecahedron.
Fold along each line of the pentagon within the circle 4. The dodecahedron, or a frame for frames is a kaleidoscopic novel of sorts twelve stories of seemingly different genres cohere into a book of astonishing literary dimension. This series of twelve interlinked stories, structured like a dodecahedron in which each shares five referential sides with its contiguous stories, and thricerepeated phrases create vertices among storytriads, functions like a giant sudoku puzzle and kept me reaching for my pen and subsequently for my computer to track the appearances and reappearances of various motifs. Award winners book club selections books by author books by series coming soon kids books new releases teens books this months biggest new books.
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