"Here I was, doing ninety on the Santa Monica Freeway with a quart of whiskey shoved into my crotch and my dead neighbor in the trunk. It had come time to leave Los Angeles..."
Thus begins the pre-apocalyptic, cross-country race with death to bury the murdered past in Joseph Mattson's urgent, beautifully reckless debut novel of transgressive loss and hunted redemption, culminating in a shotgun fight with God. Includes an open-road, open-whiskey soundtrack by enigmatic and stunning Drag City recording artist Six Organs of Admittance.
'Joseph Mattson writes like a guitar player with nineteen fingers - everywhere at once, stinging, dark, and beautiful.'
- JERRY STAHL, author of Permanent Midnight and Pain Killers
'Several passages induced the shiver of aesthetic bliss in my spine that Nabokov famously described as the indicator of good and true writing.'
- JAMES GREER, author of Guided by Voices: A Brief History and The Failure
'Joseph Mattson is one hell of a mother****ing writer.'
- JEFF GARLIN, author of My Footprint: Carrying the Weight of the World and co-star and executive producer of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm
Genre: Literary Fiction
Thus begins the pre-apocalyptic, cross-country race with death to bury the murdered past in Joseph Mattson's urgent, beautifully reckless debut novel of transgressive loss and hunted redemption, culminating in a shotgun fight with God. Includes an open-road, open-whiskey soundtrack by enigmatic and stunning Drag City recording artist Six Organs of Admittance.
'Joseph Mattson writes like a guitar player with nineteen fingers - everywhere at once, stinging, dark, and beautiful.'
- JERRY STAHL, author of Permanent Midnight and Pain Killers
'Several passages induced the shiver of aesthetic bliss in my spine that Nabokov famously described as the indicator of good and true writing.'
- JAMES GREER, author of Guided by Voices: A Brief History and The Failure
'Joseph Mattson is one hell of a mother****ing writer.'
- JEFF GARLIN, author of My Footprint: Carrying the Weight of the World and co-star and executive producer of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm
Genre: Literary Fiction
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