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Sunday, April 27th at 2:00 PM
JACK O'CONNELL discusses and signs
The Resurrectionist
(Algonquin, $24.95)
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As he pores over old comic books to learn what his son may have imagined when his brain still functioned normally, a father discovers the Goldfaden Freaks, a sideshow troupe including a skeleton, a pinhead, a human torso, a lobster girl and the chicken boy who serves as their conscience and spirit. "A father struggles to reclaim his son from a long-standing coma in O'Connell's dark, wildly inventive fantasy... The shadow world of comic books provides O'Connell (Word Made Flesh, 1999, etc.) with material for a nightmarish story that's hallucinatory, tightly structured and ultimately redemptive," said Kirkus. And Publishers Weekly called it "an engrossing, elaborately staged exploration of consciousness... Like Stephen King in Richard Bachman mode, O'Connell digs for darkness... This strange brew is sure to enhance [his] growing cult status." | |
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86 East Third Avenue
San Mateo, CA 94401
www.MforMystery.com
Phone: 650-401-8077
Toll free outside the Bay Area: 888-405-8077
Fax: 650-401-8079