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Shortlisted for the 2006 IMPAC Dublin Award.
Winner of the 2005 Howard O'Hagan Award for Short Fiction.
"The particular volume I''m looking for is nameless, lacking a cover, title page, or any other outward markings of identity." So begins Thomas Wharton''s book about books. The Logogryph is a loose-limbed series of fictions, histories, encounters and conundrums that will change the way you think about reading. One tale traces the origins of a fictional card game, another tells of a duel between two margin scribblers. Wharton indulges his reader with tales of fantastical cities where the only occupation is reading and of the plight of a protagonist suddenly dislodged from his own novel. Roving across the globe and from parable to mystery, we are positioned inside a book that is not. Taking its cues from magic realism and cinematography, The Logogryph is a mind-bending caper through the process of reading, the relationships we establish with fictitious worlds and the possibility of worlds yet unread. And what becomes of the reader who reads all of this? Thomas Wharton is an author and creative writing instructor at the University of Alberta. His first novel, Icefields (1995), won the Writers Guild of Alberta Best First Book Award, the Banff Book Festival Grand Prize and the Commonwealth Writer''s Prize for Best First Book in the Canada/Caribbean division. His second novel, Salamander (2001), was shortlisted for the Governor-General''s Literary Award and for the Roger''s Fiction Prize. Thomas Wharton lives in Edmonton with his wife and three children. He is currently at work on a new novel.
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