It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

Anne de Marcken

cover image of the book It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

Her words and images take darkness from moment to moment and take light from moon to moon.

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Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how much of what we love can we lose before we are lost? And then what happens?

Available Mar, 05 2024

It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

by Anne de Marcken

This third person perspective on myself is disconcerting.

The heroine of the spare and haunting It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, she notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. And even if she has forgotten her name and much of what connects her to her humanity, she remembers with an implacable, and nearly unbearable longing, the place where she knew herself and was known (and loved), and she is determined to get back there at any cost. Our dead heroine travels across the landscapes of time and of space (heading always west and carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest), encountering and losing parts of her body and her self in one terrifying, hilarious, and heartbreaking situation after another.

A bracing writer of great nerve and verve, Anne de Marcken bends reality (and the reader’s mind) with throwaway assurance. It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over plumbs mortality and how it changes everything, except possibly love. Delivering a near-Beckettian whopping to the reader’s imagination, this is one of the sharpest and funniest novels of recent years, a tale for our dispossessed times.

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Paperback(published Mar, 05 2024)

ISBN
9780811237857
Price US
15.95
Trim Size
5x8
Page Count
160pp

Ebook

ISBN
9780811237864
Portrait of Anne de Marcken

Anne de Marcken

A queer interdisciplinary artist and writer

Her words and images take darkness from moment to moment and take light from moon to moon.

Vi Khi Nao, Human Tetris and a Brief Alphabet of Torture