Abs Street

Authors of The Menaced Assassin, The Other Planet, Red Moon/Red Lake and other works of fiction, the noted collaborative team of Ascher/ Straus contemplates the materials of the writer's life ("what gets cannibalized into fiction but doesn't get treated as fiction itself") in this new work which explores the boundary between novel and notebook. A novel that takes up the tasks of the journal can also be read as journal that documents the materials of a novel. In ABC Street the narrative of place and life of the mind work together to build up a panoramic view of related lives with no epic pretensions.