Moving from Los Angeles to rural Texas with her junkie father after her mother's death, Jeliza-Rose drifts from the harsh reality of her childhood into a new life. Escaping into the fantasies of her own over-active imagination she discovers fireflies with names, bog men who awaken at dusk, and monster sharks swimming down railroad tracks. Her collection of disembodied Barbie heads share in her adventures along with her real friend Dickens. In the tradition of such cult classics as Iain Banks' The Wasp Factory and Patrick McCabe's The Butcher Boy, and playfully recalling Alice in Wonderland, Tideland is a brilliantly dark and ingenious creation. Set in a landscape populated with singular characters and stark imagery, Tideland illuminates those moments when the fantastic emerges from seemingly common occurrences and lives - and a lonely child discovers magic and danger behind even the most mundane of events.

Tideland

Mitch Cullin

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Phoenix

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The Flash

Carlton Mellick III

Steve Almond

Nathan Tyree

Rick Moody

Jackie Corely

Social Disease

Mr. Holmes (a Slight Trick Of The Mind Movie Tie-in Edition)

Anchor

The Cosmology of Bing

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Permanent Pr Pub Co

"I know some things. A guy can't grow up in Claude without knowing something about the place. But what I understand best about my town is how it shuts down on game night, how dusk settles over the deserted Main Street with only the blinking of a single yellow light that sort of marks the center of Claude. And with the wind blowing dust and bits of trash along the sidewalks and gutters downtown, not a soul in sight, someone driving through on the interstate could just think a bunch of folks got tired of where they was at and decided to leave for good. So begins Whompyjawed, the story of Willy Keeler, a high school football hero from Claude, Texas. From a brief and depressing sexual encounter with a classmate to an infatuation with one of his mother's friends, he moves through the societal underside of his backwash hometown. And while struggling to make sense of himself, his own capacity for desire and regret, he espouses a purely instinctive take on his small world--sometimes affectionate, sometimes bitter--reflecting the lives of those who inhabit it. Told with a humorous edge, Whompyjawed offers a vivid insight into a fading corner of rural America, coupled with the evolving, often violent personal odyssey of a young man who intuitively experiences an awareness of how he is being groomed to be a hero--which in itself is the antithesis of the currents that are sweeping him along toward college.

Whompyjawed

United States

The Permanent Press

A Slight Trick of the Mind

Canongate Books Ltd.

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