Windeye by Brian Evenson (English) Paperback Book

Description: Windeye by Brian Evenson Cormac McCarthy meets The Twilight Zone. A modern-day Hawthorne, Evenson is a writer people will claim they discovered early. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "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 LethemA woman falling out of sync with the world; a kings servant hypnotized by his murderous horse; a transplanted ear with a mind of its own—the characters in these stories live as interlopers in a world shaped by mysterious disappearances and unfathomable discrepancies between the real and imagined. Brian Evenson, master of literary horror, presents his most far-ranging collection to date, exploring how humans can persist in an increasingly unreal world. Haunting, gripping, and psychologically fierce, these tales illuminate a dark and unsettling side of humanity.Praised by Peter Straub for going "furthest out on the sheerest, least sheltered narrative precipice," Brian Evenson is the author of ten books of fiction. He has been a finalist for the Edgar Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the World Fantasy Award, and the winner of the International Horror Guild Award, and the American Library Associations award for Best Horror Novel. Fugue State was named one of Time Out New Yorks Best Books of 2009. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and three O. Henry Prizes, including one for the title story in "Windeye," Evenson lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where he directs Brown Universitys Literary Arts Department. Author Biography Praised by Peter Straub for going "furthest out on the sheerest, least sheltered narrative precipice," Brian Evenson is the author of ten books of fiction. He has been a finalist for the Edgar Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the World Fantasy Award, and the winner of the International Horror Guild Award, and the American Library Associations award for Best Horror Novel. Fugue State was named one of Time Out New Yorks Best Books of 2009. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and three O. Henry Prizes, including one for the title story in "Windeye," Evenson lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where he directs Brown Universitys Literary Arts Department. Review Time Out New York, mention in "Best (and worst) books of 2012"HTML Giant, Included in "Holiday Shopping Guide: Fiction Recommendations""Both smartly referential and admirably distinct in voice . . . these are stories of madness told from the inside, and they often read like dreams." —Publishers Weekly"Evensons thrillingly unnerving books have won awards for mystery, horror, and literary fiction; this is work thats scary on a deep level."—Readers Digest"The fact that Evenson can move from parody to paranoia and humor to horror in the span of three paragraphs is a testament to his ability as a storyteller, one that can make us laugh and shudder, moving with the same kind of erratic schizophrenia as many of his own characters." —Brooklyn Rail"For those whose imaginations constantly hunger for genuine nourishment, Brian Evensons Windeye is a feast . . . Windeye delivers a complex and varied collection filled with contrasting flavors. Ranging from feudal to post-apocalyptic, it contains some of the best uncanny and horror writing to come out of New England since Stephen King published The Stand in 1978." —ForeWard"In the 25 stories collected in Windeye, Evenson shows himself to an imaginative writer first and formost. . . . Imagine Becketts Murphy or Molloy lost, walking around in a Poe tale, then read these stories to find out why Jonathan Lethem calls Evenson one of the treasures of American story writing." —Shelf Awareness"All the stories in this collection are hard-edged, tinged with emotional or physical violence and capped by shock or outright horror. Characterized by building suspense and dread, these tales often have a folkloric feel far removed from the commonplace." —Booklist"Brian Evenson writes profoundly about the prisonhouse of language precisely because he has made that place his home." —Open Letters Monthly"Im pulled into this great, unresolved tension that becomes the general atmosphere in which the events of the stories take place. Which is horrifying. And delightfully so." —Black Balloon Publishing"One senses that Evenson drafted these stories as fuller narratives, then stripped away their surest details until only the most fragile threads were tying their events together, and anchoring them to anything fixed. The result is fiction that, for all it seeming insubstantiality, is weighty, solid, and provocative." —Locus Magazine"A modern master of the weird tale, Brian Evenson is also one of the genres most experimental. Windeye, his latest story collection, does what all good horror aspires to: reflect the tenor and fears of a given period."—Campus Circle, "Scary Stories: Halloween Book List""With his latest short fiction collection Windeye, Brian Evenson once again proves himself a master at creating suspenseful, literary horror."—Largehearted Boy, "Favorite Short Story Collections of 2012""The horror of Windeye surfaces as characters are kept in endless trepidation about the evil hiding in the basement, never daring or able to grab a flashlight and go check it out for themselves."—New Orleans Review"Brian Evenson may be the king of genre bending, slipstream fiction. For years now he has taken the best of genre fiction—the tension and terror or horror, the illusion and mystery of noir—and paired it with the elevated language and insightful focus of literary fiction, to write some of the most compelling stories out there."—Emerging Writers Network"Laughter can be an effective tool of the horror writer, and Evenson is its finest practitioner." —Time Out Chicago"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"No one—and I mean no one—is better at excavating the strangeness of our everyday lives." —Andrew Ervin Promotional Endorsements (potential): Tana French, Audrey Niffenegger.National print, online, and radio campaign.Targeted pitches to horror/thriller outlets, including Fangoria and Locus.Promotion at AWP, Winter Institute, ALA Midwinter, BookExpo America, and ALA.Press kit interview: Kate Bernheimer.Nomination for Powells Indiespensable.Goodreads promotion (February).Book trailer (possibility).Advertising: Bookslut, Bookforum, HTML Giant.Promotion on Coffee House Press e-newsletter, website, and social media channels.Author website: Review Quote Time Out New York, mention in "Best (and worst) books of 2012" HTML Giant , Included in "Holiday Shopping Guide: Fiction Recommendations" "Both smartly referential and admirably distinct in voice . . . these are stories of madness told from the inside, and they often read like dreams." Description for Sales People Brian Evenson is a writer on the verge of breaking out of cult fame. A writer whose work is singularly thrilling, hell soon be one of those writers who people will claim they knew about before everyone else did. His fans range from the very literary (Jonathan Lethem) to the heroes of horror (Peter Straub). Evensons work has been compared to that of J. G. Ballard, Jorge Luis Borges, Paul Bowles, Franz Kafka, Cormac McCarthy, Robert Coover, Edgar Allan Poe. A literary writer whose work crosses into science fiction and horror, Evenson has also won the ALA RUSA Award for Best Horror Novel and was a finalist for the Edgar Award. Some of his horror genre books, like a movie tie-in to Aliens, has been published under the pseudonym BK Evenson. The title story was one of twenty stories that won the 2011 PEN/O. Henry Prize Award. Other winners included Lily Tuck, Chris Adrian, and Jim Shepard. Details ISBN1566892988 Author Brian Evenson Short Title WINDEYE Publisher Coffee House Press Language English ISBN-10 1566892988 ISBN-13 9781566892988 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 813.54 Birth 1966 Year 2012 Imprint Coffee House Press Place of Publication MN Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2012-05-17 NZ Release Date 2012-05-17 UK Release Date 2012-05-17 Pages 176 Audience General Publication Date 2012-06-14 US Release Date 2012-06-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:46862781;

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