Signed by M. Gira



THE EGG: STORIES BY MICHAEL GIRA

HAND ASSEMBLED BOOK, SIGNED AND NUMBERED

STRICTLY LIMITED EDITION OF 2500

40 PAGES

The front and back covers are heavy, uncoated card stock, similar to the material used in recent Swans releases. The book is professionally printed (not on a copy machine). Hand stamped #s 1 – 2500 in red. The size of the pages is 8 ½ x 11 inches, printed on high quality, matt paper. Each book is signed by M. Gira, using a silver or gold paint-stick pen.

The book includes a CD (affixed to the inner back cover) featuring Gira narrating many of the stories included in The Egg, as well as a few stories from his (out of print) book, The Consumer.

Included are several full-page illustrations executed by Nicole Boitos, in close collaboration with M. Gira.

“ These stories were written over the course of the past year. They are the burnished, gathered and organized residues of a mind eating itself. The book is a work of fiction. It bears no resemblance, intentional or otherwise, to anything other than itself.” – M. Gira

The Stories:

The Egg Brothers Married The Knot I Am Him Serendipity The Condemned Man The Choice Where Are You? The Performance Artist The Seer His Name Is Fuck The Egg (2) I Am Her You’ll Never Understand Four Incidental Essays I Am The Stars

Click here to read a sample story from The Egg.

The Egg CD: 1. The Egg 2. The Condemned Man 3. Serendipity 4. His Name Is Fuck 5. The Seer 6. Brothers 7. I Am The Stars 8. Married 9. Why I Ate My Wife 10. The Young Boy 11. The Great Annihilator - CD Running Time: 54 minutes.

One of the illustrations by Nicole Boitos: