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". . . constantly demands attention and admiration.
Line by line, this book ranks among the best post-postmodern
fiction that I’ve read in years."
—The Believer
"Here, Kesey walks the line between realism and allegory, offering
situations we recognize, then turning them until we’re not sure
what we’re seeing anymore. It’s a vivid effect that . . . gives
All Over a sneaky power to make us think again about a world in
which anything can happen, and often does."
—The Los Angeles Times Book Review
"While these stories initially appear to randomly skew toward Aimee Bender–style bizarreness, Kesey’s collection has an air of conviction that—by the end of the final story—will have the reader wondering why they ever questioned it. Of course Martin is a guitar string! Of course that painter created a mural of a mountain range that’s nine miles long! Occasionally, the risk-taking that makes some of his stuff so refreshing leaves other surreal forays foundering and overwrought; “Exeunt,” a
flat tale about a dead actor and his asshole director, comes to mind. But even
when Kesey falters, his bald inventiveness is enough to prod the reader into
wanting more of his pervasive weirdness."
—Time Out New York
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Roy Kesey is the author of Nothing
in the World,
winner of the 2005 Bullfight Review Little Book Prize. His work has appeared
in McSweeney’s, The Kenyon Review and American
Short Fiction, among
other magazines, as well as in New Sudden Fiction
2006 and the Robert Olen
Butler Prize Anthology. He currently lives in Beijing with his wife and
children. |
