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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 US$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
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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