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Can I read Girl Imagined by Chance on EtoBox?
Girl Imagined by Chance by Lance Olsen is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Girl Imagined by Chance about?
Girl Imagined by Chance is a critifictional novel about a couple who find themselves having created a make-believe daughter (and soon a make-believe life to accompany her) in order to appease their friends, family, and the culture of reproduction. Structured around twelve photographs from a single roll of film, the book explores the nature of photography and the questions that nature raises about the notions of the simulated and the real, the media-ization of consciouness, originality, self construction, and the way we all continually fashion our faces into masks for the next shot. At its heart, Girl Imagined by Chance investigates the mystery of self-knowledge. The prevailing metaphor and structural device of photograpy examines the way images, in their magical ability to mimic memory, ultimately mock and eradicate it. The seemigly stable and fixed individual past turns out to be as protean and unknowable as the future. The body becomes strangely dispensable, perpetually adrift in a cybernetic world of hyperlinks and interfaces.
Who reads Girl Imagined by Chance?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Lance Olsen
- Publisher
- University of Alabama Press (Bibliovault)
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781573668637
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (78 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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