by Aaron Thier
An ingenious, hilarious, and genre-bending page-turner, Mr. Eternity is multiple novels in one. Together they form an uncommon work—about our changing planet and its remarkable continuities.
“Mr. Eternity will be sizzling in my brain for a long time.” —Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies and Florida
“[A] sharp, inventive and compassionate novel … to be savored and heeded.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Mr. Eternity remains playful even as it relates catastrophe.” —The Wall Street Journal
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The Ghost Apple
Maggie Bell is a directionless New England college student enamored of her colonial history professor, John Kabaka. Bill Brees is a widowed dean, who sees promise in Maggie. Their college is a troubled institution that has effectively sold itself to a snack food corporation. And when Maggie, Bill, and Professor Kabaka all end up on the college’s Caribbean satellite campus, heart of the corporation’s agricultural operations, they find that the deep wounds of history are covered by only the thinnest of scabs …
A blistering debut novel from a prodigious young writer, and brilliantly parroting a panoply of voices—including tourism pamphlets, blog posts, slave narratives, and personal correspondence—The Ghost Apple gloriously lampoons the absurdities and indignities of modern life, and the darker forces that bubble beneath it.
“Insightful and hilarious … A definite new voice to watch.” —Bustle
“An improbable laugh riot.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“A droll comedy of modern manners, incisive without being angry, this satire within satire will delight the right audience.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Had Donald Barthelme written Absalom, Absalom!, this is it.” —Padgett Powell
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ISBN: HB: 978-1-63557-141-7; eBook: 978-1-63557-142-4
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Names: Thier, Aaron, author.
Title: The world is a narrow bridge / Aaron Thier.
Description: New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2018.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017036872 | ISBN 9781635571417 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781635571424 (ebook)
Classification: LCC PS3620.H54 W67 2018 | DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017036872
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