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The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The People of Paper about?
<p><p>among Gang Warfare And Paper Cuts, This Book Is About The Wounds Made By First Love And Sharp Objects. The People Of Paper Reveals The Ever Elusive Prophesies Of The Shandean Baby Nostradamus And The Approximate Temperature And Incendiary Potential Of Halos. Herein Disillusioned And Awol Saints Reclaim Their Crowns And Fight Purses, While A Gang Of Flower Pickers Go Off To War, Led By A Lonely Man Who Cannot Help But Wet His Bed In Sadness. Part Memoir, Part Lies, This Is A Story About Loving A Woman Made Of Paper.</p><h3>publishers Weekly</h3><p>plascencia's Mannered But Moving Debut Begins With An Allegory For Art And The Loss That Drives It: A Butcher Guts A Boy's Cat; The Boy Constructs Paper Organs For The Feline, Who Is Revivified; The Boy Thus Becomes The World's First Origami Surgeon. Though Plascencia's Book Sometimes Seems To Take The Form Of An Autobiographical Attempt To Come To Terms With A Lost Love, Little Of This Experimental Work-a Mischievous Mix Of Garcia Marquez Magical Realism And Tristram Shandy Typographical Tricks-is Grounded In Reality. Early On We Meet A Baby Nostradamus And A Catholic Saint Disguised As A Wrestler While Following The Enuretic Fernan
Who reads The People of Paper?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Salvador Plascencia
- Publisher
- McSweeney's Books
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780156032117
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (3,728 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14