Kris Saknussemm, Author . Villard $14.95 (485p) ISBN 978-0-8129-7416-4
Saknussemm's debut novel describes the picaresque wanderings of a Zelig-like character through a post-apocalyptic America where psychotropic drug dependency and bodily mutilation/alteration are the order of the day. The protagonist, Clearfather,
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Kris Saknussemm, Author . Overlook $24.95 (333p) ISBN 978-1-59020-176-3
James Ellroy meets David Lynch in this addictive mix of noir and supernatural horror from Saknussemm (Zanesville
). Det. Birch Ritter investigates the suspected suicide of California real estate magnate Deems Whitney, who apparently doused his...
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Kris Saknussemm, Del Rey, $16 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-8129-7417-1
Outrageous and baffling, this puzzle-packed yarn seems to fall in the same (non)category as Saknussem's Zanesville (2005), combining the fusty diction of Charles Portis and the deadpan weirdness of Thomas Pynchon. Readers meet little Lloyd Meadhorn...
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Kris Saknussemm. Soft Skull (PGW, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-59376-448-7
This memoir by novelist Saknussemm (Zanesville) of life in late 1960s California—much of which has already appeared in more than a dozen literary journals—is for the most part surprisingly pedestrian, enlivened only by certain chapters that are...
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