SPRAWL [Paperback]

SPRAWL in fact does not sprawl at all; rather, it radiates with control and fresh, strange reflection. Bookforum

Reads as if Gertrude Stein channeled Alice B. Toklas writing an Arcades Project set in contemporary suburbia. The Believer

When Danielle DuttonsSPRAWLfirst broke upon the world in 2010, critics likened it to collage, a poetics of the suburbs, a literal unpacking of et cetera. This updated edition, with a new afterword by Renee Gladman, reopens the space of SPRAWLs fierce, careful compositionasBookforumwrotewhich changes the ordinary into the wonderful and odd.

Today I fell asleep in the tall grass near the old train station. It was a complete picture. A fashionable park. Yet the picture had its sordid and selfish aspect. I cant seem to say what I mean, Mrs. Barbauld, but with some urgency I mean to inform you what a triumph the big city has become. I am a secular individual but even I can feel the shift in the horizon utterly alien to the constitution of things, the habitual. Sincerely, etc. I move in shade on the edge of a parking lot under walnut trees in the early morning around the edge of a curve in an accidental manner. I walk the sidewalk and ripple the surface of it. From this condition I have a view of the world.

Danielle Duttonis the author ofMargaret the First, SPRAWL, andAttempts at a Life. Her writing has also appeared or is forthcoming inThe Paris Review, Harpers, The White Review, Fence, BOMB, and others. She is on the faculty of the writing program at Washington University in St. Louis and is co-founder and editor of the feminist press Dorothy, a publishing project.

This experimental novel is best read in a single sitting and, like the photographs that inspired it, can be viewed in any number of ways, with a different effect each time.
—Publishers Weekly