Abraham Carter

The Grain of the Desk (eBook, ePUB)

A Novella on the Aesthetics of Perpetual Incompletion
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• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In a single, fluorescent-lit office after hours, an unnamed analyst circles the same walnut desk, touching its sealed grain the way a monk fingers prayer beads. Every polished surface-desk, doorframe, ceiling tile, brass key-becomes a mirror that refuses to show a finished self. Through fifteen microscopic chapters and a coda, the narrator catalogues the tiny refusals of closure: a fan that clicks only every third rotation, a blind warped one centimeter, a green binder whose plastic spine has never been fully closed.

Memory arrives in wet sand, unsent letters, and rain-ruined margins, each flashback a palimpsest proving that beginnings are always revisions. The prose is spare, obsessive, almost tactile; sentences end in hyphens the way projects end in "needs more." Yet beneath the paralysis lies a quiet revelation: perfection is not the absence of flaws but the deliberate preservation of potential. When the narrator finally walks out, he leaves the keys on the desk-an intentional splinter in the post-so the room, for the first time, is honestly finished.

A literary novella for readers of Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine, Teju Cole's Open City, and Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation. Perfect for book-club debates on perfectionism, remote-work loneliness, and the secret erotics of office supplies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: PublishDrive
• Seitenzahl: 105
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 6610001099077
• Artikelnr.: 75862324