Name: A Collapse of Horses, Paperback/Brian Evenson
Brand: Coffee House Press
Price: 80.00 RON
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A stuffed bear's heart beats with the rhythm of a dead baby, Reno keeps receding to the east no matter how far you drive, and in a mine on another planet, the dust won't stop seeping in. In these stories, Evenson unsettles us with the everyday and the extraordinary--the terror of living with the knowledge of all we cannot know. Praise for Brian Evenson: "Brian Evenson is one of the treasures of American story writing, a true successor both to the generation of Coover, Barthelme, Hawkes and Co., but also to Edgar Allan Poe." --Jonathan Lethem "One of the most provocative, inventive, and talented writers we have working today." --The Believer "There is not a more intense, prolific, or apocalyptic writer of fiction in America than Brian Evenson." --George Saunders "Brian Evenson is one of the few who will still be read a hundred years from now: either by our grandchildren, or by the machines who have killed our grandchildren." --Hobart, "An interview with Brian Evenson" "Packed with enough atrocities to give Thomas Harris pause. . . . Not many writers have the imagination or the audacity to transform what looks like salvation into an utterly original outpost of hell." -- Bookforum "Evenson's writing is something to be read in short intervals, like a good tea that you want to savor to the last drop." -- Twin Cities Geek Praised by Peter Straub for going "furthest out on the sheerest, least sheltered narrative precipice" Brian Evenson has been a finalist for the Edgar Award, the S