Filled with zig-zags and crosshatchings, the complex works seem to evoke an imaginary architecture that's been twisted and smushed -- like a far trippier cousin of M.C.
The furnishings are real, but the setting evokes an imaginary scene the way a doll house does.
Roberts evokes this imaginary England with a persuasive attention to detail and a grandeur of vision that I find irresistible.
And the second is The Three Musketeers (Penguin) by Alexandre Dumas, which evokes an imaginary France, delicious, uninhabitable and impossible.
Uncle Tupelo, the band Tweedy had started with his friend Jay Farrar, was something genuinely new, blending the rhythms and storytelling of traditional country with the mood and volume of punk, and evoking an imaginary America where the Carter Family, D. Boon, and J Mascis sat around a room making music together.
What better choice to launch a new series of quality reprints than this classic alternative-history novel, first published in 1968 and set in a 20th-century England that reverted to Roman Catholicism after the assassination of Queen Elizabeth I? Roberts evokes this imaginary time and place with a persuasive attention to detail and an irresistible narrative sweep.
What better choice to begin a new series of quality reprints than this classic alternative-history novel, first published in 1968 and set in a 20th-century England that reverted to Roman Catholicism after the assassination of Queen Elizabeth I? Roberts evokes this imaginary time and place with a persuasive attention to detail and an irresistible narrative sweep.
There are productions for singers Kinny and Spanky Wilson, as well as The Limp Twins, his atypical banner for the stylistic gliding that evokes an imaginary wan-voiced meeting between Marvin Gaye and Arthur Russell.
In its detail and obsessiveness, at least, Kerouac's fantasy baseball evokes the Brontës' imaginary chronicles of Gondal and Angria: in the play of adolescence, lifelong lessons in craft, discipline and detail would appear to coalesce.
Although Chagall did not write music, many Russian and Yiddish folk songs evoke the real and imaginary universes he painted.
