Quinnehtukqut
Advance praise for Quinnehtukqut:
"Joshua Harmon's magical postmodern epic ranges across time, threading fragments of oral history, diaries, and news accounts into parallel tales of mystery, wonder, and tragedy. Quinnehtukqut calls to mind the perceptive historical accuracy of W.G. Sebald and the experimental bravura of Sorrentino or Sukenick, but Joshua Harmon has fashioned a novel completely his own. Quinnehtukqut is the story of an American Eden in which the fall of our times is lit and refracted back to us so skillfully that we see ourselves in a lost past of deepest pleasure and plangent sorrow." —Jayne Anne Phillips
"What survives and what is lost—frontiers, houses, towns, loves, parents, stories—is at the core of Harmon's stunning adventure in narrative, Quinnehtukqut. Sentence by sentence, fragment by fragment, couplet by couplet he 'pushes back the darkness' creating 'a gorgeous signal along the horizon.'" —Victoria Redel
"Joshua Harmon's magical postmodern epic ranges across time, threading fragments of oral history, diaries, and news accounts into parallel tales of mystery, wonder, and tragedy. Quinnehtukqut calls to mind the perceptive historical accuracy of W.G. Sebald and the experimental bravura of Sorrentino or Sukenick, but Joshua Harmon has fashioned a novel completely his own. Quinnehtukqut is the story of an American Eden in which the fall of our times is lit and refracted back to us so skillfully that we see ourselves in a lost past of deepest pleasure and plangent sorrow." —Jayne Anne Phillips
"What survives and what is lost—frontiers, houses, towns, loves, parents, stories—is at the core of Harmon's stunning adventure in narrative, Quinnehtukqut. Sentence by sentence, fragment by fragment, couplet by couplet he 'pushes back the darkness' creating 'a gorgeous signal along the horizon.'" —Victoria Redel
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posted by Josh at 5:42 PM
