Books by Shane Jones and Complete Book Reviews
Shane Jones, Author . Penguin $14 (149p) ISBN 978-0-14-311778-0
Jones’s brief and bewildering war fable pursues the plight of a town battling to free itself from the brutal hold of the month of February (also sometimes a person or a force or merely a metaphor), a meanie that has not allowed its wintry grip
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Shane Jones. Penguin, $14 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-0-14-312119-0
Jones’s powerful second novel (after Light Boxes) tells the story of a mentally disturbed man and the ex-wife who struggles to help him. Daniel Suppleton, a laborer working on an oil pipeline, suffers from a profound lifelong fear of hurricanes, as...
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Shane Jones. Two Dollar Radio (Consortium, dist.), $16 trade paper (184p) ISBN 978-1-937512-18-7
In his newest novel, Jones (Light Boxes) recreates a mythical and hallucinatory experience of a family fighting mortality. Remy’s dog has just died, her village is being supernaturally consumed by the nearby city, and her mother’s crystal count is...
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Shane Jones. Tyrant, $16.95 trade paper (230p) ISBN 978-0-9992186-7-9
The narrator of Jones’s uneven novel (after Crystal Eaters), an everyman named Vincent, is pushing 40 and nine years into a mind-numbing state job that will yield an exceptional retirement package as long as he stays for 30 years. He’s recently...
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