Authors: Mark de Silva
Tags: #Fiction, #Literary, #Science Fiction, #Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, #Crime
A QUESTIONABLE SHAPE * Winner of the Bard Fiction Prize * * “[ |
THE ABSOLUTION OF ROBERTO ACESTES LAING * “Kafka directed by David Lynch doesn’t even come close. It is the most hauntingly original book I’ve read in a very long time. [This book] is a strong contender for novel of the year.” — |
RADIO IRIS “Kinney is a Southern California Camus.” — “[ |
CRYSTAL EATERS “A powerful narrative that touches on the value of every human life, with a lyrical voice and layers of imagery and epiphany.” — “[Jones is] something of a millennial Richard Brautigan.” — |
HOW TO GET INTO THE TWIN PALMS “One of my favorite books this year.” —Roxane Gay, “Waclawiak’s novel reinvents the immigration story.” — |
CRAPALACHIA * “McClanahan’s prose is miasmic, dizzying, repetitive. A rushing river of words that reflects the chaos and humanity of the place from which he hails.” — |
MADE TO BREAK “With influences that range from Jack Kerouac to Tom Waits and a prose that possesses a fast, strange, perennially changing rhythm that’s somewhat akin to some of John Coltrane’s wildest compositions.” — |
MIRA CORPORA * * “Style is pre-eminent in Jeff Jackson’s eerie and enigmatic debut. The prose works like the expressionless masks worn by killers in horror films.” — |
I SMILE BACK * Now a major film starring Sarah Silverman and Josh Charles! “Powerful. Koppelman’s instincts help her navigate these choppy waters with inventiveness and integrity.” — |
ANCIENT OCEANS OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY * “Wonderful… Remarkable… it’s impossible to stop reading until you’ve gone through each beautiful line, a beauty that infuses the whole novel, even in its darkest moments.” —NPR |