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The Settlements

O. Jamie Walsh

4.40/5 (25 ratings)

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Set in a community where people live according to their creative drives, this “endlessly surprising novel” embodies the philosophy that life is not a narrative with a beginning, a middle and an end. Challenging, experimental, yet also human, funny and deeply moving, The Settlements is about finding worth in stories and lives cast off or considered of no use; a book about the possibility and randomness of human growth; and ultimately a (curious) love story for those who are misfits beyond the age when it is cool to be so—

“In my role as omissioner, I receive summonses from all over the settlements. My function is to offer an ear, a valve for the bleeding of grief or worry or simply unspent chat, and to do this well I must adapt myself to those who live in different settlements. Anyone can call me. It costs nothing, and I offer no advice: all an omissioner does is listen, finding worth in words that would otherwise remain unspoken or forgotten.”

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 236 pages

Publication:: 2018

Publisher:: Broodcomb Press

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1999629817

ISBN13:: 9781999629816

kindle Asin:: 1999629817

The Settlements

O. Jamie Walsh

4.40/5 (25 ratings)

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Set in a community where people live according to their creative drives, this “endlessly surprising novel” embodies the philosophy that life is not a narrative with a beginning, a middle and an end. Challenging, experimental, yet also human, funny and deeply moving, The Settlements is about finding worth in stories and lives cast off or considered of no use; a book about the possibility and randomness of human growth; and ultimately a (curious) love story for those who are misfits beyond the age when it is cool to be so—

“In my role as omissioner, I receive summonses from all over the settlements. My function is to offer an ear, a valve for the bleeding of grief or worry or simply unspent chat, and to do this well I must adapt myself to those who live in different settlements. Anyone can call me. It costs nothing, and I offer no advice: all an omissioner does is listen, finding worth in words that would otherwise remain unspoken or forgotten.”

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 236 pages

Publication:: 2018

Publisher:: Broodcomb Press

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1999629817

ISBN13:: 9781999629816

kindle Asin:: 1999629817

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