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Announcing:
Wolf in White
Van by John
Darnielle
Sean McDonald
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There are
professional thrills and there are professional thrills, but I am extra
especially thrilled to report that FSG is going to be publishing John
Darnielle's novel, Wolf
in White Van, this fall. John is famous for his work with the
Mountain Goats, and I suspect that none of the many fans who know his
lyrics and have heard his stories will be surprised by the revelation
that his is a genuinely literary mind. And it's true - Wolf in White Van
emphatically proves that his imagination and voice are at least as at
home on the page as they are in song.
There are many things worth singling out for praise in Wolf in White Van: the
unforgettable main character, Sean Phillips, who has been isolated by a
disfiguring injury since age seventeen; Trace Italian, the intricate game within
the novel that Sean created and runs; the interplay of real and imagined
worlds, which is both complex and heartbreaking; the structure of the
storytelling - audacious, brilliant, and never anything but convincing
and unreasonably suspenseful; the prose itself, which is precise and
beautiful and (forgive me) lyrical. But the greatest and perhaps most
unexpected satisfaction is the quality that encompasses all these things,
that this is simply a magnificent novel, weird and dark and wonderful,
adventurous and spellbinding in the way of any great piece of literary
art.
Read
on...
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Book Keeping
with...
Michelle Huneven
The Book Keepers Series
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"I had
tried many times over the years to read Moby Dick, but it never took. One night, I
couldn't sleep and I went into my husband's office and looked for a
boring book to put me to sleep. Oh, there's Moby Dick, I thought. That'll do the
trick. Five chapters later, I was wide awake and practically shouting
with pleasure. What had I ever been thinking? It is the most astonishing,
idiosyncratic, encyclopedic, beautifully written, sprawling and endlessly
fascinating book I've ever read. I wasn't bored for a second. Even the
cetology was so stunningly written, with such an unerring eye for the
amusing, arcane detail..."
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