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Coming in November 2009!
Terrorism, crack cocaine
and rape. Failure, miscarriages and suicide. Divorce, incest and misery.
This Other Eden is Michael Hemmingson at his most brutal.
A man wins the lottery and loses his family. A book agent must deal
with a wild girl writer, a white trash genius and a limousine full of
angry teenagers. His protagonists scratch at the bottom of society desperately
to maintain delusions of adequacy. They fall into each other with hatred
and emerge with their own unique heroism.
"Both
humorous and profound, Hemmingson's new collection calls humanity
on the carpet and makes us all account for our sins. A brilliant and
refreshing collection of stories from an equally brilliant and refreshing
author."
--Ronald
Damien Malfi, author of Passenger
Provocative
and intriguing, THIS OTHER EDEN by Michael Hemmingson is akin to reading
a cross between someone's private journal and a True Crime magazine.
Feeling titillated and naughty, as if reading a sibling's most private
and dirty secrets, I found myself wholly unwilling to put this book
down. It is glorious train wreck of loss, betrayal, and crime mixed
with intimate thoughts and a poignant sense of loneliness. THIS OTHER
EDEN is the kind of book that will make you forget your own life for
a while but will also allow you to be grateful for it when you put
the book down.
--Jennifer
Brozek, Apex Book Company
“Hemmingson
is Raymond Carver on acid.”
--Larry
McCaffery, editor of Avant-Pop
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