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Product details
- ISBN 9781573660587
- Weight: 525g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 07 Mar 2017
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Stephen-Paul Martin’s The Ace of Lightning is a series of interconnected stories focused on a turning point in Western history: the assassination in Sarajevo of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria which triggered World War I, and the mysterious circumstances that led Gavrilo Princip to shoot and kill the heir apparent to one of Europe’s most powerful empires.
Far from being a conventional work of historical fiction, Martin’s collection asks readers to think about what truly constitutes history. What would the past look like if history was written under the influence of Mad Magazine and The Twilight Zone? What happens when the assassination in Sarajevo becomes “the assassination in Sarajevo,” when Gavrilo Princip becomes “Gavrilo Princip,” when the past and the present shape a textual future that looks suspiciously like a past that never was and a present that never is?
Far from being a conventional work of historical fiction, Martin’s collection asks readers to think about what truly constitutes history. What would the past look like if history was written under the influence of Mad Magazine and The Twilight Zone? What happens when the assassination in Sarajevo becomes “the assassination in Sarajevo,” when Gavrilo Princip becomes “Gavrilo Princip,” when the past and the present shape a textual future that looks suspiciously like a past that never was and a present that never is?
Stephen-Paul Martin is editor of Central Park, a journal of the arts and social theory, and author of several collections of fiction, including Changing the Subject, The Possibility of Music, and Instead of Confusion. Martin’s writings have appeared in more than 200 periodicals over the past 30 years, in several different languages. One of his short story collections, The Gothic Twilight, was nominated for the National Critics Circle Fiction Award in 1993.
