“…relentlessly astonishing…
absolutely and compulsively readable.”
- Harry Mathews
This book answers for the final time the following age-old questions : 1. why do small town cops bungle a murder investigation with evidence in abundance? 2. what is the relation of the author to the protagonist and why must we even ask this silly question? 3. what are the names and associations of the river that flows through the center of small town america with such polluted grace? 4. why are religious hermit folk so despised by their equally religious neighbors? 5. if everyone dies, were do our lives end up? 6. do lawyers guns and television go hand in hand in hand?
“…a book that begins with a man who is fully conscious of the fact that he is dead but who continues to live on anyway, surrounded by a cast of types that seem like refugees from the grittiest, funniest Cohen Brothers movies.” – Brian Evenson
“…draws its inspiration as much from Kafka as it does from vaudevillian tomfoolery. . . literary allusions land like anvils on the sidewalk…” – Rain Taxi
Published by Spuyten Duyvil
June 15 2005