"When someone asked me what Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall was about, it felt like I'd seen a beautiful tree and struggled to describe it to someone, only to have that someone say: 'Yes, but what is the tree about?' You wouldn't know how to answer that question. It isn't the right question. The tree wasn't ever about anything. It was just beautiful." -From the introduction by Ken Sparling

Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall

Literature & Fiction

Sparling, Ken

Literary

Random House Value Publishing

Formerly available only in handmade editions, constructed upon request, Hush Up and Listen Stinky Poo Butt is Ken Sparling's elusive follow up to his critically acclaimed debut novel, Dad Says He Saw You At The Mall. Hush Up is a starkly honest look at fatherhood, from the indie master of realism. Includes a brand new preface from Derek McCormack, the author of The Show That Smells and The Haunted Hillbilly

Hush Up and Listen Stinky Poo Butt

Parenting & Relationships

Family Relationships

Artistically Declined Press

A wonderful debut, this funny yet sad novel recounts a young man's attempt--as father, husband, and son--to put together the pieces of an ordinary, and at the same time, very puzzling life.

KNOPF

Fiction. From Ken Sparling's intro: "When someone asked me what DAD SAYS HE SAW YOU AT THE MALL was about, it felt like I'd seen a beautiful tree and struggled to describe it to someone, only to have that someone say: 'Yes, but what is the tree about?' You wouldn't know how to answer that question. It isn't the right question. The tree wasn't ever about anything. It was just beautiful."

Mud Luscious Press

"Ken took a book published by a big publisher, carved out a space for himself, and filled it with his words. It was a book safe that saved words, that kept them safe. The children of his mind." -From the preface by Derek McCormack

From accomplished writer Ken Sparling comes a spare verse novel about a girl and a boy and the life they're writing together. But the girl wants a story and the boy wants a poem, and the furniture in the house is stuck in the middle. Meditative and magical, a book as complicated as the ways we love, This Poem Is a House is, in the end, about a girl's story sheltering a boy's poem, the way a house shelters the lives of the people who live in it.
Ken Sparling has written six novels, including Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall (Knopf, 1996), commissioned by Gordon Lish. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.

This Poem Is a House

Coach House Books

Not Anywhere, Just Not

Genre Fiction

Recounts the life and driving career of the German Formula One auto racing star

Michael Schumacher (Champion Sport Biographies)

Biographies & Memoirs

Warwick Pub

An account of the life and career of a champion Formula One car racer, discusses how he entered his career after his famous racing father was killed in a tragic accident. Original.

Jacques Villeneuve (Champion Sport Biogragphies)

About the novel: After Chappy leaves home, Mirror falls off the house and comes to an important decision about her future and the future of the owl-eyed boy. On her subsequent journey, Mirror hears a voice like a can opener opening a can of trumpets. Read this book and you will start to hear sounds other people dont hear. Sounds locked deep inside walls, stirring to get out. Sounds in the chests of the people you pass in parks. Sounds deep under the ground, where darkness covers men skinned in humid walls, clambering in endless circles, looping endlessly back on themselves, till they turn their ways of being inside-out.

Intention, Implication, Wind

Pedlar Pr

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Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall

Hush Up and Listen Stinky Poo Butt

Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall

Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall

Hush Up and Listen Stinky Poo Butt

This Poem Is a House

Not Anywhere, Just Not

Michael Schumacher (Champion Sport Biographies)

Jacques Villeneuve (Champion Sport Biogragphies)

Intention, Implication, Wind