SPRAWL

New edition of a breathless prose work with a unique vision of suburbia.

SPRAWL in fact does not sprawl at all; rather, it radiates with control and fresh, strange reflection. Bookforum

Reads as if Gertrude Stein channeled Alice B. Toklas writing an Arcades Project set in contemporary suburbia. The Believer

When Danielle Duttons SPRAWL first broke upon the world in 2010, critics likened it to collage, a poetics of the suburbs, a literal unpacking of et cetera. This updated edition, with a new afterword by Renee Gladman, reopens the space of SPRAWLs fierce, careful compositionas Bookforum wrotewhich changes the ordinary into the wonderful and odd.

Today I fell asleep in the tall grass near the old train station. It was a complete picture. A fashionable park. Yet the picture had its sordid and selfish aspect. I cant seem to say what I mean, Mrs. Barbauld, but with some urgency I m