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Ben Armstrong's Strange Trip Home,Used
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A GOLD MEDALIST FOR BEST FICTION IN THE 2013 INDEPENDENT BOOK PUBLISHERS BOOK AWARDS'Your brother forgives you,' Ben Armstrong is told by his mother's ghost, 'Don't waste that,' and so the hero of this novel begins his long journey home. What follows is a wild ride through the subconsciousa night journey toward redemption and grace. It's amusing and hilarious and weird, and unlike any homecoming story you've ever read before...'...a deliberately troubling masterpiece... Ben Armstrong's Strange Trip Home begins with an allAmerican homecoming that traps its middleaged exfarmboy protagonist like a fly in a web worthy of Kafka. Cates' hero endures an inescapable series of dreams, visitations, halfmelted memories, and unsought meetings with the living and dead. His subsequent attempts to escape or even understand his entrapment proceed to make a mesmerizing, oneofakind music I've heard nowhere else in our literature. Endlessly inventive in its language, masterful in its fidelity to its own harsh vision, and symphonic in its impact, this novel builds from a series of perverse fractions to a darkly satisfying whole.'DAVID JAMES DUNCAN, author of The Brothers K and The River Why'I love this book. I picked it up in Montana on a road trip to Minnesota. It carried me along in its backdraft and my imagination was completely engaged for a thousand miles. I like to think about the images and replay the feelings they roused: erotic, startled, awakened.'Sheryl Noethe, author of AS IS, and Montana Poet Laureate'David Allan Cates ignites a new vision of Cain and Abel. Invitingly mysterious and breathtakingly compellingthe story takes on the shape of a rattling tale. Although the story is dreamlike, it does not stall or coerce like a dreamit opens out to mythic possibilities, the strange truths of life. There is a deep hunger for literature that expresses desire and fear with fearlessness and David Allan Cates is on that cutting edge. Wonderfulan Alice in Wonderland journey for grownups.'DEBRA MAGPIE EARLING, author of Perma Red'David Allan Cates may take you places youve never been, have never imagined goingto a dead brother slowly turning into a fish on your staircase landing, say, or into the fields around your house only to find a ghost troop of Union soldiers encamped therebut his great knowledge of the deep workings of the human heart serves as an unerring guide wherever his story lead. This is a deeply moving work by an uncannily gifted writer.'PETE FROMM, author of Indian Creek Chronicles, and How all this Started
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