TY - BOOK ID - 135763065 TI - The Size of the Universe. PY - 2010 SN - 1573668206 9781573668200 9781573661584 1573661589 PB - Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press DB - UniCat KW - Life KW - Time KW - Outer space UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135763065 AB - The landscape of this novel in stories-Joseph Cardinale's first book-length work of fiction-is as familiar as childhood yet beguilingly surreal. The question of whether or not the child in the first fiction and the man in the last story are the same person-and whether any person is the same from one moment to the next-is perhaps the book's main question. In prose as spare as it is meticulous, The Size of the Universe conjures an elegant labyrinth of time, space, and memory, in which a wavering self, a self on the verge of becoming nothing, seeks a safe ER -