| This Other Eden Contributor(s): Hemmingson, Michael (Author), Haberfield, Saul (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0976654660 ISBN-13: 9780976654667 Publisher: Dybbuk Press, LLC OUR PRICE: $12.11 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Crime - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 6" W x 9" (0.65 lbs) 216 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Terrorism, crack cocaine and rape. Failure, miscarriages and suicide. Divorce, incest and misery. This Other Eden is Michael Hemmingson at his most brutal. A man wins the lottery and loses his family. A book agent must deal with a wild girl writer, a white trash genius and a limousine full of angry teenagers. His protagonists scratch at the bottom of society desperate to maintain delusions of adequacy. They fall into each other with hatred and bile; emerging with their own unique form of heroism. Provocative and intriguing, THIS OTHER EDEN by Michael Hemmingson is akin to reading a cross between someone's private journal and a True Crime magazine. Feeling titillated and naughty, as if reading a sibling's most private and dirty secrets, I found myself wholly unwilling to put this book down. It is glorious train wreck of loss, betrayal, and crime mixed with intimate thoughts and a poignant sense of loneliness. THIS OTHER EDEN is the kind of book that will make you forget your own life for a while but will also allow you to be grateful for it when you put the book down. Jennifer Brozek, Submissions Editor, Apex Book Company |