ANNOUNCE: Patchwork Girl (hypertext fiction)


Mon, 13 Nov 1995 15:47:09 -0500

Eastgate Systems is delighted to announce PATCHWORK GIRL, an important new
hypertext novel by Shelley Jackson.

A graveyard, a journal, a quilt, a story: Shelley Jackon's PATCHWORK GIRL
is among the most eagerly-awaited hypertexts of the year. Jackson weaves
aspects of the Frankenstein tale, graphic novels, feminist meditation, and
pure storytelling into a riveting and utterly original work.

From the innocence of Dorothy and Frankenstein to the
duplicitous inner workings of seances and circuses,
PATCHWORK GIRL keeps you on the edge of your computer...
a stunning dance of merging and dissolution, held
strong by a genuine storyteller's voice.
-- Deena Larsen, author of MARBLE SPRINGS

A cyborg song of communion and reunion....
Hypertext's next step....Patchwork Girl is spectacular in every
sense, from RayBan to Debordian to Cirque du Soleil....This is
a work of dream and desire and defying boundaries, an electronic
collage, a theatre of windows, and a cyborg song of communion and
reuinion." -- Michael Joyce, author of AFTERNOON, A STORY

Editions of PATCHWORK GIRL are available for Macintosh and for Windows
computers, at $19.95. ISBN 1-884511-23-6.

A self-described "student of the art of digression," Shelley Jackson holds
an A.B. in studio art from Stanford University and an M.F.A. in creative
writing from Brown University. Her work has appeared in *Degenerative
Prose* and various journals, including *Conjunctions*. She has written
and illustrated a childrenšs book, The Old Woman and the Wave, is
forthcoming from Orchard Books.

Eastgate Systems publishes fine hypertexts, both fiction and non-fiction,
and hypertext tools for serious writers.

For more information on Patchwork Girl, or to order, contact:

-- 
Mark Bernstein               Bernstein@eastgate.com
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