Slow Guillotine: A Novel (Zero Street Fiction) Paperback – March 1, 2026
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| Management number | 220500931 | Release Date | 2026/05/03 | List Price | $8.78 | Model Number | 220500931 | ||
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Winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in FictionSlow Guillotine follows three broke weirdos whose collective desire to make and think about art is constantly interrupted by their art-industry-adjacent minimum-wage jobs. Throughout the novel, the three friends’ day jobs in a failing independent bookstore, a sterile gallery in downtown Manhattan, and miscellaneous living rooms across the Long Island birthday-party-clown circuit interweave with their attempts to come to terms with their precarity, gender-dysphoric embodiment, and the floating dream of collective liberation.Spanning one year and told through an obsessive first-person present tense, Slow Guillotine brings the bildungsroman structure through the autofictional looking glass, questioning how “coming of age” could be feasible in a society of debtors, wage laborers, and renters. Read more
| ISBN10 | 1496247310 |
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| ISBN13 | 978-1496247315 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | University of Nebraska Press |
| Dimensions | 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches |
| Item Weight | 10.5 ounces |
| Print length | 220 pages |
| Publication date | March 1, 2026 |
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