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01882aam a2200301 i 4500 001 2A21F9B2EB0A11ED895B35C65DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230505010032 008 230406t20232023miu e 000 f eng d 020 $a 195053975X 020 $a 9781950539758 035 $a (OCoLC)1375099743 040 $a ON8 $b eng $e rda $c ON8 $d OCO $d SO$ $d SILO 082 04 $a 813/.6 $b 23 100 1 $a Austin, Blair, $e author. 245 10 $a Dioramas : $b a novel / $c Blair Austin. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Ann Arbor, MI : $b Dzanc Books, $c 2023. 300 $a 310 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "In a city far in the future, retired lecturer Wiggins moves from window to window in a museum, intricately describing each scene. Whales gliding above a shipwreck and a lost cup and saucer. An animatronic forest twenty stories tall. A line of mosquitos in uniforms and reglia, honored as heroes of the last great war. Bit by bit, Wiggins unspools the secrets of his world - the conflict that brought it to the brink, and the great thinker, Michaux, who led the diorama revolution, himself now preserved under glass. After a phone call in the middle of the night, Wiggins ets out to visit the Diorama of the Town: an entire, dioramic world, hundreds of miles across, where people are objects of curiosity, taxidermied and posed. In this hybrid novel - part essay, part prose poem, part travel narrative - Blair Austin brings us nose to the glass with our own vanishing world, what we preserve and at what cost." -- $c Back cover. 650 0 $a Diorama $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Biological specimens $x Collection and preservation $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Experimental fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 2 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230906010120.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20230505010432.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2A21F9B2EB0A11ED895B35C65DECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b LJWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search