Losing in Gainesville (9781940430331) (60 page)

 

Set in an archly comedic alternate reality version of Indianapolis that is completely overrun by Big Pharma, James Tadd Adcox's debut novel chronicles Robert and Viola's attempts to overcome loss through the miracles of modern pharmaceuticals. Viola falls out of love following her body's third “spontaneous abortion,” while her husband Robert becomes enmeshed in an elaborate conspiracy designed to look like a drug study.

 

LET GO AND GO ON AND ON

A novel by Tim Kinsella

 

“I give Kinsella a five thousand star review for launching me deep into an alternate universe somewhere between fiction of the most intimate and biography of the most compelling. It's like...a pitch-perfect fine flowing bellow, the sound of celestial molasses.”
— Devendra Banhart

 

Let Go and Go On and On
is the story of obscure actress Laurie Bird. Told in a second-person narrative, blurring what little is known of her actual biography with her roles as a drifter in
Two Lane Blacktop
, a champion's wife in
Cockfighter
, and an aging rock star's Hollywood girlfriend in
Annie Hall
, the story unravels in Bird's suicide at the age of 26.
Let Go and Go On and On
explores our endless fascination with the Hollywood machine and the weirdness that is celebrity culture.

 

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