Silvia, Jared2017-06-212017-06-212014-05-15http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11868/75The Chimney is a postmodern literary noir which concerns Davey, a recently un-employed newspaper photographer who is conscripted into the service of an agency that deals in explicit celebrity photographs. Davey endeavors to capture a dirty picture of a local celebrity in the town of Groveland, a failed industrial city reconfiguring itself as a playground for the rich and beautiful. His work is further complicated by Sarahmony, a part-time locksmith and full time arsonist who torturers Davey to help him understand the nature of the universe. As Davey tries to tie together the loose threads of his existence, he is forced to confront the possibility that Chaos may truly be the current flowing behind everything he experiences.en-USNoir fictionPostmodernismChaosPaparazziThesis