April 24th, 2006
Nothing in the World, a novella by Roy Kesey
Nothing in the World a novella by Roy Kesey
RELEASE DATE / May 16, 2006
Publisher / Bullfight Media
ISBN / 0-9755220-4-3
$8 US / 116 pages
“Nothing in the World is a war story unlike any other—a dark, surreal, surprisingly funny and offbeat fable of madness, innocence and survival.
Here is the story of Josko Banovic, a lonely schoolboy who, with the outbreak of fighting between Serbia and his native Croatia, reveals himself to be a gifted sniper and becomes an unwitting war hero.
But when his camp is bombed, Josko is gravely wounded. He wanders away from the ruins to search for his sister, and for another girl whose mysterious, siren-like call guides him from village to village. Starving, exhausted and hallucinating, Josko must make his way through the front lines and back, confronting enemy soldiers, distrustful civilians, jumpy military police, and his own faltering mind.
Drawing comparisons to the fierce, visionary writing of Denis Johnson and Cormac McCarthy, Roy Kesey’s book debut is a colorful triumph of human endurance set against the panoramic landscape of the Adriatic coast and Yugoslav countryside.”
Buy Nothing in the World from Powells, or Amazon.
Roy Kesey was born and raised in Northern California, and currently lives in Beijing with his wife and children. His fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in more than forty magazines and anthologies, including McSweeney’s, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, PRISM International, Zoetrope All-Story Extra, The Mississippi Review, Quarterly West, Night Train, the Robert Olen Butler Prize Anthology and The Future Dictionary of America. His dispatches from China appear irregularly at the McSweeney’s Web site, and his Little-known Corners meta-column appears monthly in That’s Beijing.
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RELEASE DATE / May 16, 2006
Publisher / Bullfight Media
ISBN / 0-9755220-4-3
$8 US / 116 pages
“Nothing in the World is a war story unlike any other—a dark, surreal, surprisingly funny and offbeat fable of madness, innocence and survival.
Here is the story of Josko Banovic, a lonely schoolboy who, with the outbreak of fighting between Serbia and his native Croatia, reveals himself to be a gifted sniper and becomes an unwitting war hero.
But when his camp is bombed, Josko is gravely wounded. He wanders away from the ruins to search for his sister, and for another girl whose mysterious, siren-like call guides him from village to village. Starving, exhausted and hallucinating, Josko must make his way through the front lines and back, confronting enemy soldiers, distrustful civilians, jumpy military police, and his own faltering mind.
Drawing comparisons to the fierce, visionary writing of Denis Johnson and Cormac McCarthy, Roy Kesey’s book debut is a colorful triumph of human endurance set against the panoramic landscape of the Adriatic coast and Yugoslav countryside.”
Buy Nothing in the World from Powells, or Amazon.
Roy Kesey was born and raised in Northern California, and currently lives in Beijing with his wife and children. His fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in more than forty magazines and anthologies, including McSweeney’s, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, PRISM International, Zoetrope All-Story Extra, The Mississippi Review, Quarterly West, Night Train, the Robert Olen Butler Prize Anthology and The Future Dictionary of America. His dispatches from China appear irregularly at the McSweeney’s Web site, and his Little-known Corners meta-column appears monthly in That’s Beijing.
Filed Under: Pimping |
