This novel, from the exciting Fitzcarraldo Editions, is comprised of 113 entries: strands of stories, pieces of fact, characters’ perspectives, extracts from other authors; all these strands twisted or knotted together make a spare, melancholy, elusive work, as spare, melancholy and elusive as the piece of desert in Nevada where it is (largely) set. Innovative in form, the novel is also ‘about’ the writing of a novel (or the impossibility of writing a novel (or the reformulation of the concept of a novel)).
January 2016
