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Ray
of the Star
Reviews
Praise for Ray of the Star
Denver Post:
“Mesmerizing
. . . there's something here for almost all devotees
of the dark and mysterious in life.”
Samuel R. Delany:
“Here
is a pyrotechnical novel that, with the arrival of
the bloody-lipped horrors, propels its protagonist,
Harry, through a concatenation of immense, sensuous
sentences, on a tour of our modern world that escalates
to an unimaginable velocity, among a clutter of clauses
that refuse ordinary subordination and so becomes a
lens for the meticulous exploration of the sublimity
of the banal. Like The Impossibly, The Exquisite,
and Indiana, Indiana before it, Ray of
the Star is pure, wonderful writing.”
Praise for Laird Hunt
Paul Auster:
“Strange, original, and utterly brilliant—Laird
Hunt is one of the most talented young writers on
the American scene today.”
Believer, on Laird
Hunt's fiction:
“Mostly
we like to settle in with books. Sometimes, it's
nice to be made to sit up.”
Booklist:
“Hunt's
novels shimmer and shift like reflections on wind-stirred
water.”
Review of Contemporary Fiction:
“Hunt
possesses a poet's eye for the evocative image, and
it's tempting to luxuriate in his descriptive prose.
Although his images can stop time, it's a wonderful
feeling when you begin to realize the momentum sneaking
up on you, when you begin to feel the subterranean
connections and see the veiled linkages, when you
recognize the narrative beneath the stillness.”
Bookmunch:
“Hunt's
prose is cinematic and rich; evocative of a world
created to Escher's dizzying design.”
Sam Lipsyte:
“Laird
Hunt is an extraordinary writer.”
Lynne Tillman:
“Like
the best American writers, Laird Hunt is recasting the
American song, lyrically and philosophically. His novels
are smart and refreshing and genuinely unusual. He's
a seeker, in the best literary sense. He's looking for
and finding vivid language and forms, ways to write what
he sees and understands about his and our weird, fortunate,
and troubled lives and times.”
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