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wow.
Pretty cool isn’t it? Makes me want to get some writing done…
I read the blurb and am considering reading this book, but contemporary novels tend to underwhelm me – is this a book someone
who reads Gaddis, Barthes, Pynchon, Wallace Stevens, Heidegger, Saramago, Murakami, Cixous, etc. would find interesting? Or is it workchopped (like 99% of the crap out there right now)?
“Workchopped”–I like that.
Can’t say what your reaction will be, but workchopped it definitely is not. The voice that Jess has found is entirely her own.
I would say Pynchon might be about right. For what it’s worth, where she has talked about influences on this book (http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=7575), Jess has mentioned Camus and Dostoevsky first.
If you want a taste of her writing before digging into The Convalescent, I’d recommend “The Rust Preventer,” which appeared in Best New American Voices 2006.