Cut Up on Copacabana American Literature its elements of experiment take

its elements of experiment take us further from the ordinary

including the detective novel and science fiction

His short stories are packed with irony

Veronika Simoniti

Featuring Urs Allemann

Cut Up on Copacabana American Literature its elements of experiment takeLife is often experienced as a tedious continuum fragmented by moments of intense feeling or excitement. In Cut up on Copacabana, three sets of texts (Travel Notes, Boxing Rings and Schoolboy Rites of Passage) explore some of these moments in terms of travel, sport and youthful experience recollected later in life. In David Scotts stories, connections between the hands of Michelangelos David and the leaning tower of Pisa, or a scar on the shoulder and