Black God by Ben Spivey eBook
“Ben Spivey’s Black God is a surreal dreamscape of a book. To borrow from the book itself, ‘There’s something black in that place like it was untouched by God himself . . . Or herself.’ At its claustrophobic core, this book is a love story about time and memory, fear and death. At its dreamlike fringes, it is a book that might have been written by the son of Kafka and Braque. Like our best books, it is a love story in love with its own death.” —Peter Markus
This digital download includes .epub and .prc files
“Ben Spivey’s Black God is a surreal dreamscape of a book. To borrow from the book itself, ‘There’s something black in that place like it was untouched by God himself . . . Or herself.’ At its claustrophobic core, this book is a love story about time and memory, fear and death. At its dreamlike fringes, it is a book that might have been written by the son of Kafka and Braque. Like our best books, it is a love story in love with its own death.” —Peter Markus
This digital download includes .epub and .prc files
“Ben Spivey’s Black God is a surreal dreamscape of a book. To borrow from the book itself, ‘There’s something black in that place like it was untouched by God himself . . . Or herself.’ At its claustrophobic core, this book is a love story about time and memory, fear and death. At its dreamlike fringes, it is a book that might have been written by the son of Kafka and Braque. Like our best books, it is a love story in love with its own death.” —Peter Markus
This digital download includes .epub and .prc files
PRAISE
“In Black God there is a dream architecture that draws the aging narrator Cooper from his dying wife like a moth to its hard and gateless outer shell. With him we explore the received forms of daily life mingling with fluctuating dreams of the interior of eternity. Here, Spivey accomplishes the rare feat of investing Cooper’s efforts with resonance though his motives obscure even to himself and the theater in which he operates is a dreamscape of mechanical islands, a wife retreating into silhouettes, and beaches of washed up clocks: ‘I looked up and could see where I fell from—a house hanging in the sky like a new moon—the actual moon cast shadow on the home giving it celestial shape. I could even see the stairs I must have tumbled from hanging there like a limp wrist.’ This is a visionary book, a genuine terror and awe.” —Joe Hall
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ben Spivey is the author of the novel Flowing in the Gossamer Fold (Blue Square Press, 2010). He lives in Atlanta with his wife and a few animals.
