All Over - Softcover

Kesey, Roy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0979312302 ISBN 13: 9780979312304

Publisher: Dzanc Books, 2007

Synopsis

Roy Kesey has been hailed as one of our best young writers. All Over, his debut collection, presents nineteen of his most original stories. They first appeared in magazines such as McSweeney's, Ninth Letter and The Kenyon Review, and have been chosen for anthologies including Best American Short Stories, The Robert Olen Butler Prize Anthology and New Sudden Fiction.

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From the Inside Flap

"In All Over, Roy Kesey’s postmodern parables are stunning mash-ups of style, content, characters. The book is a narrative train wreck that keeps happening of arcane jumbled juxtaposed graffitied rolling stock crashing into horribly hilarious verbal clown car kinetic sculpture." —Michael Martone, author of The Flatness and Other Landscapes, and other titles "All Over is the strangest, best collection of stories you will read this year. With a seamless blend of lyricism and minimalism, Roy Kesey travels All Over the terrain of he psyche, the human condition, the relationships we have and fail to have. These stories team with insights, little horrors, moments of sweet verity, and surreal surprise. The characters are persuasive, and the storytelling is both hallucinatory and familiar. This is a new voice you must hear." —Laura Kasischke, author of Be Mine, and five other titles

About the Author

Roy Kesey's other books include his debut novel Pacazo, the award-winning novella Nothing in the World, two historical guidebooks, and an upcoming story collection called Any Deadly Thing. All Over made The L Magazine's recent "Best Books of the Decade" list. His short stories, essays, translations and poems have appeared in more than one hundred magazines, including McSweeney's, Subtropics, Ninth Letter and The Kenyon Review. Among other awards, his work has won two Pushcart Prize special mentions and the 2008 Missouri Review Editors' Prize in Fiction, and has appeared in several anthologies including Best American Short Stories, The Robert Olen Butler Prize Anthology and New Sudden Fiction. He is the recipient of a 2010 prose fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He currently lives in Maryland with his wife and children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dzanc Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0979312302
• ISBN 13: 9780979312304
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 152