Blomgren, Lance

Walkups

Montréal, Quebec, Conundrum Press, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. 123. 12mo. measuring 18 cm. Black-and-white photogrphs, illustrations. Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine. Appears unread; as new. Lance Blomgren's captivating novella takes place entirely indoors, up the steel staircases and behind teh brick walls of Montreal's distinctive row-house apartments. Inside these rooms people are collectively beginning to sense that something is not quite right. Time is becoming noticeably slower, and things that were once unnoticeable - or even invisible - are suddenly impossible to ignore. Composed as a series of documentaries depticting actual Montreal apartments, this book offers an intimate architectural tour of the city that is in turns humorous, erotic, and deeply unsettling. Walkups is a strikingly original work by a writer who the Montreal Review of Books has called "a human conveyer belt of ideas and images".

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Book number: 5336

Catalogue: Architecture & Design

Keywords: canadian literature; poetry; art theory; city and town life; cities; urban studies