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The long-awaited novel by master Stephen Dixon, twice a finalist for the National Book Award, I. is a searingly powerful and seemingly autobiographical novel in the form of linked stories that explores the limitations of memory and the frustrations of the narrator's life, as he cares for his two daughters and his handicapped wife, whose condition worsens as the narrator struggles with his own sense of mortality. I. is hardcover, with cover art by acclaimed graphic novelist Dan Clowes.

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338 pages
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McSweeney's
Publication date

June 1, 2002
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6 x 1.25 x 8.75 inches
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0971904707
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978-0971904705
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Reading this novel made up of interlinked stories can feel like being trapped in a small room with someone who insists on telling you every damn thing that crosses his mind. I., the hero, is an older writer stuck in a life that seems increasingly hard to endure: his wife is chronically ill, his two daughters find him difficult at best, and he is often gripped by an unfocussed and uncontrollable anger. But from this grim material emerges a moving and oddly funny book, as I. takes refuge in reveries of the past, recounting stories of Thanksgiving Day parades, meals in Paris, family quarrels, and the courtship of his wife. He also imagines myriad scenarios that might have happened but didn't; these unlived possibilities underscore the contingency of even our deepest relationships, and the ways in which we can be haunted by the alternatives.
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For venturesome readers willing to take a chance on a book that tells it like it is. -- San Francisco Chronicle, June 23, 2002

Highly personal, in a few cases embarrassingly intimate, I. is artfully artless, honest and true. -- Washington Post Book World, May 23, 2002

I. is riveting, ambitious fiction. -- Baltimore City Paper, July 17 - 23, 2002

I. serves as a good entree into Dixon's work, and also features arresting cover art by Daniel Clowes. -- The Austin Chronicle, July 5, 2002

This book is capable of breaking your heart like a resolved mathematical proof or breathtaking mountain climb. -- Boston Weekly Dig, July 17 - 24, 2002

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ McSweeney's; First Edition (June 1, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 338 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0971904707
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0971904705
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.41 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.25 x 8.75 inches

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Stephen Dixon is the author of twenty-seven works of fiction including, most recently, Phone Rings and Old Friends (both published by Melville House). His novels Interstate and Frog were both finalists for the National Book Award. Frog was also a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. His work has received the O. Henry Award, the Best American Short Stories award, the Pushcart Prize, The American Academy Institute of Arts and Letters Prize for Fiction, and he has been a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2002

This, in my opinion, is Dixon's most personal and emotionally satisfying novel. "I." is constructed as interconnected stories that examine the various junctions of the life of "I.", a writer who bears much resemblance to Dixon himself. In some chapters, the character contemplates his mortality by comparing his situation with his wife's. In a brilliant, horrific, and funny chapter called 'The Switch', the character imagines that he's bound to the wheelchair, helpless, instead of his wife who in reality is stricken with the illness. Dixon's strengths as a writer shines forth here as I. contemplates and imagines his suicide and its aftermath. The narrative technique is unassuming, but dazzling. Much of the book also deals with recollection and memory, and there are sections when Dixon recalls a particular moment, then stops and realizes something is amiss, then starts all over again by retelling the tale. It's a fine narrative contemplation of the nature of memory and the shifting veracity of recalled details and truths. Dixon's authorial interruption is never contrived, but rather heightens the effect of blurring the line between the fictional character and the author himself. No narrative device serves as pure pyrotechinics; the last chapter 'Again' is resolute and deeply moving as I. (or maybe Dixon himself) remembers and reconstructs the first meeting with his wife over and over again, until finally the story inevitably evolves into a love story of a man who loves this woman, regardless of her illness and despite his having to adjust his life for her.
The writing is never sentimental, and it's straightforward. Dixon's paragraphs sometimes run for pages, and they remind you of Thomas Bernhard's eloquent paragraphs - but Dixon's style is more accessible. This is writing that's disturbingly funny, affecting, and serious (in the best sense of the word). There isn't an American writer like him, and his recognition is well overdue. A fine book.

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Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2002

Dixon doest it again. One of his best books ("Frog" and the amazing "Interstate" are the others, I guess, but anything by Dixon is something special). A modern writer who has been modern since decades and will be modern in ages. So are the true classics. Pure talent and good proof that you can be clever and moving in the same sentence.

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19 Pieces of a Novel

Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2007

I like Dixon and loved Frog but find myself disagreeing with many of the other reviewers about I. The book starts well with a story about a modest dream and I's inability to realize it. Dixon then moves into the style with which I am most familiar in his short works. It reminds me of Curb Your Enthusiasm with minimal humor. The reader is entrapped in the mind of the pseudo-protagonist as he wonders if he went too fast through a speed bump, thinks about how to stop yelling at his children and speculates near endlessly on the logistics and strategy of when to call a woman for a date after getting her phone number at a party.

At some point, I always wonder if Dixon is presenting more authentic or absurdly less authentic dialogue. In any case, the reader feels first hand the not very enriching experiences of I. They are more enjoyable when Dixon recounts past childhood memories like the Thanksgiving Parade or a girl he knew when 5 years old. They may be truer, although far less bearable, when he complains while assisting his wife in a wheelchair or negotiates his behavior with his children.

As an introduction to Dixon if other works seem too formidable, I makes sense, but it is not his best work.

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