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A mid-20s American writer, college graduate (almost), and occasional philosopher. Well, thats at least how his Internet dating profile reads. Hunter Flanagan in reality, or more accurately inside, is obsessive, disturbing, and ambiguous. The Week You Werent Here is a highly original and experimental story that takes you into the mind of Hunter on his journey from living inside his head into the outside world. Through postmodern prose that unravels jaggedly like a spool of live wire, the narrative seeks to make sense out of his landscape, as it reveals it to be a fragmented, overlapping, entangled juggernaut of a young life. We recognise and sympathise, laugh and loathe, at the mass of contradictions that are his thoughts, his actions and reactions. Hunter is as well versed in literary theory as he is in 1980s pop culture but still cant find the love that relentlessly eludes him despite his best intentions. Youll fall in love with Hunter Flanagan, but at the same time, youll be relieved that your own confessions, t-shirts, and e-mails will never be analyzed by him. You will also find it hard not to admire the brilliance of this entertaining and poignant debut by author Charles Blackstone.
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Charles Blackstone teaches at the University of Chicago Graham School of General Studies. His short fiction has appeared in Rio, M.A.G., Wazee Journal, and Whet Magazine. He lives in Chicago.
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"The Week You Weren't Here is a witty and inventive deconstruction of a young-man-as-artist's pursuit of love among a confusion of choices. It's as if Kafka's Joseph K had been commissioned to write a Dating for Dummies (The How-Not-To version) in the form of a postmodern novel. This is an auspicious debut." —Jonathan Baumbach, author, B and On the Way to My Father's Funeral
"In fast, tangled, addictive prose, Charles Blackstone’s The Week You Weren’t Here observes everything, compulsively, on its way to showing how hard it is to really, finally, understand anything. This is a smart, fun book that takes a fascinating look at the minutiae that complicate our (love) lives." —Matthew Roberson, author, 1998.6
"Given the strength of the narrative voice, the reader quickly learns to read Charles Blackstone's sparsely punctuated prose...a fine first novel." —The Review of Contemporary Fiction
"Remarkable...Blackstone gracefully keeps [Hunter Flanagan] tottering on the precipice between romantic hero and irredeemable cad. It's a compelling balancing act to watch...An original voice." —Bookslut
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