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The Way Through Doors

Jesse Ball

Paperback | Pages: 240 pages

Rating: 3.81 | 1206 Users | 184 Reviews

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Original Title:	The Way Through Doors
ISBN:	0307387461 (ISBN13: 9780307387462)
Edition Language:	English

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With his debut novel, Samedi the Deafness, Jesse Ball emerged as one of our most extraordinary new writers. Now, Ball returns with this haunting tale of love and storytelling, hope and identity.

When Selah Morse sees a young woman get hit by a speeding taxicab, he rushes her to the hospital. The girl has lost her memory; she is delirious and has no identification, so Selah poses as her boyfriend. She is released into his care, but the doctor charges him to keep her awake, and to help her remember her past. Through the long night, he tells her stories, inventing and inventing, trying to get closer to what might be true, and hoping she will recognize herself in one of his tales. Offering up moments of pure insight and unexpected, exuberant humor, The Way Through Doors demonstrates Jesse Ball's great artistry and gift for and narrative.

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Title	:	The Way Through Doors
Author	:	Jesse Ball
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	February 10th 2009 by Vintage (first published January 1st 2009)
Categories	:	Fiction. Fantasy. Contemporary. Literary Fiction. Novels. Surreal

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Ratings: 3.81 From 1206 Users | 184 Reviews

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There are stories nested within stories and I was swept away at times with following the narrative, wherever it went. But my practical and logical brain would step in from time to time and not remembering who the characters were (or why I should care about them, rather than just what happens) added a temperance to my wholehearted immersion. (I probably mixed up a few metaphors and idioms there - that's how this book rattles the mind.) So I liked it, but could not love it...

This really deserves a high four stars and a part of me was tempted to give it five. It is wildly creative with a preposterous sort of energy that recalled a post-modern version of Italo Calvino's If On a Winter Night a Traveler. This is the first of Jesse Ball's books I've read but I felt like I was skipping through time, galavanting through characters, memories, stanzas, and thoughts. This is one imaginative far reaching tangential adventure. I'm pretty sure this novel will be one of those I

I loved Samedi the Deafness and Census even more, but this was just too much work. Stories within stories about story telling, about different versions of the same person, blergh. It was just a bloody gimmick. Interesting but no fun at all.

Here are some (not even all) of the influences I picked up (an admittedly subjective process) while reading this book:- Italo Calvino, first and foremost- Jorge Luis Borges- Lewis Carroll (characters speaking nonsense, appearing to be angry for no reason)- David Lynch (highly slipstream)- Paul Auster (the beginning, especially)- Salvador Plascencia- KafkaThat having been said, I would recommend skipping this and consulting these other artists instead. The Way Through Doors is like a foam created

Surreal and beautiful, Jesse Ball's The Way Through Doors isn't merely a set of stories-within-stories or an ode to storytelling but rather a unique dreamscape of ideas patched together with the loose assemblage of narrative structure and adventure.Following Selah Morse, known as S., the pamphleteer or the young municipal inspector, on a journey of ever evolving narrative elements that acts as both an attempt to keep awake a concussed amnesiac and also a self-induced bout of inspiration and

I read Ball's first book "Samedi the Deafness" after getting it in my mailbox at work by accident (I work at a news organization and often get pitched books). I read it in one weekend and found it compelling but ultimately pretty forgettable. "The Way Through Doors" takes all of the crazy, winding elements that kept me reading "Samedi" and jumps headlong down the rabbit hole. It definitely takes some patience to read -- unlike many other story within a story tales (Arabian Nights, Princess

Quite possibly the most annoying book ever. I usually like stories within a story, but Ball adds so many in without ever finishing one. All the tales are interesting, and nicely written but then they just stop abruptly. Couldn't this guy just write a collection of short stories? By the time he got back to the main characters I just wanted the book to be over- the ending made no sense and was completely unsatisfying. I don't recommend this book, and wouldn't waste my time with anything from this