2011
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4.06
Average Rating
368
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From the author of A Cure for Suicide and Census comes a philosophical recasting of myth and legend, folklore and popular a fabulist’s compendium of poetry and prose. Jesse Ball—long-listed for the National Book Award, a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, and named one of Granta ’s best young American novelists—is one of the most interesting, lyrical, fanciful, and “disturbingly original” ( Chicago Tribune ) writers working today. And The Village on Horseback is one of his most dazzling and varied works. These experimental pieces—including the Paris Review ’s Plimpton Prize–winning novella “The Early Deaths of Lubeck, Brennan, Harp & Carr”—ask the reader not to imagine the world for what it is, but for what it could a blank tableau on which a spirited imagination can conjure tales out of, seemingly, nothing. The Village on Horseback is an unmissable treat, a book of voyages to be taken on journeys far and wide.
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Author
Jesse Ball
Author · 16 books
Jesse Ball (1978-) Born in New York. The author of fourteen books, most recently, the novel How To Set a Fire and Why. His prizewinning works of absurdity have been published to acclaim in many parts of the world and translated into more than a dozen languages. The recipient of the Paris Review's Plimpton Prize, as well as fellowships from the NEA, the Heinz foundation, and others, he is on the faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
