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Jesse Ball
Jesse Ball is the prizewinning author of numerous volumes of fiction and poetry. His work is a part of the tradition of Borges, Abe, Kafka, Walser, Kristof, Erpenbeck, Bernhard, Gogol and Schulz. He was born in 1978 in New York. He lives in Chicago and teaches at the School of the Art... show more

Jesse Ball is the prizewinning author of numerous volumes of fiction and poetry. His work is a part of the tradition of Borges, Abe, Kafka, Walser, Kristof, Erpenbeck, Bernhard, Gogol and Schulz. He was born in 1978 in New York. He lives in Chicago and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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"So it goes."
"So it goes." rated it 7 years ago
“It is so easy for humans to be cruel, and they leap to it. They love to do it. It is an exercise of all their laughable powers.” Jesse Ball's writing has always fascinated me. I first knew him as a poet and I don't have a ton of faith in poets becoming novelists. (I've missed some good novels, b...
catpdx
catpdx rated it 12 years ago
Three stars seems too harsh, and four too generous, but it's a moving and memorable little book.
Nichole - Dirty H if you're nasty
Nichole - Dirty H if you're nasty rated it 15 years ago
If you take the movie "The Brothers Bloom" and stir it together with the book "House of Leaves", then stick it in a blender with a set of deformed Russian nesting dolls, then put it under your pillow and dream it, you might come up with an approximation of this book.And that's the best I can do to e...
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