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| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781916405233 (paperback) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1916405231 (paperback) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Transcribing agency |
AE-ShKH |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
PS3601.L8625 |
| Item number |
X99 2019 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Alvanson, Kristen. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
7971 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
XYZT / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Kristen Alvanson. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Falmouth, United Kingdom : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Urbanomic Media, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2019. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
viii, 317 p. ; |
| Dimensions |
20 cm. |
| 490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
K-pulp: new adventures in theory-fiction |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"There's really no difference between us and them, so we're told...based on the author's experiences of living as an American in Iran, Kristen Alvanson's XYZT is a wildly imaginative dramatization of the idea of a 'dialogue of civilizations' and its potentially outlandish ramifications. As part of an advanced technological test program, volunteers are shuttled back and forth between the US and Iran, hidden from the watchful eyes of immigration police and state bureaucracies. Each is given a single opportunity to be received by a local host and to have a brief authentic experience of what it means to live as 'them' before being transported back home. But far from heralding the bliss of mutual recognition, the experiment unleashes a series of displacements so disorienting that the fabric of reality begins to fray. Ordinary people become entangled in extraordinary situations, and everyday life bleeds into mythological encounters, alternate universes, and dark psychedelic journeys in alien lands, where the real and the imaginary are indistinguishable. A treasury of tales told from multiple perspectives and in a multiplicity of styles, XYZT is an audacious cross-genre experiment, a firsthand memoir of what it means to see what 'they' see, and a science-fictional, nonstandard engagement with anthropology in which cross-cultural encounters take on all the unpredictable features of a contemporary fairy tale."--Back cover. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
English fiction |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century.s |
| 9 (RLIN) |
7972 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Political culture |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
7973 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Space and time |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
7974 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Reality |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
1537 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Iran |
| General subdivision |
Relations |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
7975 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
United States |
| General subdivision |
Relations |
| Geographic subdivision |
Iran |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
7976 |
