The Hermaphrodite: An Hallucinated Memoir (Green Integer) - Softcover

Daniel Grandbois

Softcover

ISBN 10: 193338297X ISBN 13: 9781933382975

Publisher: Green Integer, 2010

Synopsis

"Singularly original and captivating... an important work of fiction that should transform what notions of fiction may currently exist." --Luis J. Rodriguez

"[A] collage of satire and slapstick, allegory and hallucination... an " art novel" in the fullest sense." --Marguerite Feitlowitz

"A modern space-time set of interconnected myths and stories... startling sets of shape shiftings and melting tableaus... elegantly precise... graceful... a work of art." --Ed Sanders

"Daniel Grandbois has magicked up for us in this powerfully inventive... gloriously odd and wonderful [book]." --Laird Hunt

Praise for Unlucky Lucky Days, a Book Sense "Indie Next Notable Book". "These are funny, bizarre, moving stories--a pleasure to read." --Lydia Davis

"Grandbois is a master of the double-edged word, of stories that both cut through the world like butter and double-back to saw themselves to bits." --Brian Evenson

"Grandbois' trembling leaflets bring to life all the rejecta and detritus scattered in such silent and secretive array around us, recovering all we thought lost or dead." --Eleni Sikelianos

"Animated by a wonderfully droll and fantastical imagination, these little stories are delicious." --Rikki Ducornet

About this title

From the Back Cover

Daniel Grandbois' writing has been described as "avant-garde stand-up," "Dr. Seuss for adults," and "between Brautigan's and Basho's." Alfredo Benavidez Bedoya's surreal and satirical woodcuts are collected by major museums all over the world. Together, they have created a happening as much as a book, one that award-winning author Luis J. Rodriguez deems "an important work of fiction that should transform what notions of fiction may currently exist," while Ed Sanders calls it simply, "A work of art." This is a book to be carried in the pocket, taken on journeys, opened to any page and consulted for its absurd brand of wisdom. Before its publication, a third of the book (woodcuts included) had already been anthologized and a quarter of the very short chapters had been published as prose poems. Call it a series of linked prose poems with accompanying illustrations, or call it "a collage of satire and slapstick, allegory and hallucination... an `art novel' in the fullest sense," as Marguarite Feitlowitz does in her foreword, but call it your next read, and experience the happening.

About the Author

Daniel's other book, Unlucky Lucky Days, a collection of nonsense and absurdist tales picked by Book Sense as an "Indie Next Notable Book," was published by BOA Editions in June 2008. Grandbois' writing has appeared in Conjunctions, Fiction, Boulevard, Sentence, Del Sol Review, and the anthologies Freak Lightning and Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years, among others. Also a musician, Daniel has played in three of the pioneering bands of "The Denver Sound:" Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Tarantella, and Munly.

About this edition

• Publisher: Green Integer
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 193338297X
• ISBN 13: 9781933382975
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144
• Illustrator: Alfredo Benavidez Bedoya