Praise for Cynan Jones:
“[ A] piercing novella . . . Like Cormac McCarthy, Jones can make the everyday sound fraught and biblical.”—Kirkus, starred review
“Jones’ prose clips along at an unnerving pace, barely giving you time to process the previous beautiful image, before knocking you dead with the next one.”—Green Apple Books, Our Favorite Books of 2015
“This book will collapse you into its single point of infinite heaviness, and you’ll love it.”—Elliott Bay Book Company
On a long, hot day, Gareth searches for a missing pregnant cow. A dog must be put down, there are ducks to go in the pond, there are children, and there is Kate, his wife, who may be an uncrossable distance from him. Jones's rural Wales is alive with the necessities of our own animal instincts and most human longing.
Cynan Jones was born near Aberaeron on the west coast of Wales in 1975. He is the author of five short novels,The Long Dry, Everything I Found on the Beach, Bird, Blood, Snow, The Dig and The Cove. His work has been translated into several languages, and short stories have appeared in a number of anthologies and publications including Granta.
The animal facts of human life—need, love, children, exhaustion, incapacity, and death—come alive in one farmer's long hot day.
Recenzijos
Even when nothing is happening in Joness fiction, a lot is happening, and the natural settings are bountifully alive. Publishers Weekly
[ The Long Dry] seethes with the brutal squelch of farming, breeding, bleeding, death, and soars with moments of shuddering human frailty and grace. Boston Globe
The Long Dry proves that Jones has long been consistent (and consistently good) in his stylistic and thematic wheelhouse. This novel leaves little question as to why Jones has been called `one of the most distinctive new voices in British fiction. Rain Taxi
Jones books are fistfuls of raw earth [ The Long Dry] has a poetic, elemental feel thats enlivening even when the mood is at its lowest ebb. Star Tribune
Joness lines propel us, enthrall us, and break our hearts. Vol. 1 Brooklyn
Not since I first encountered Faulkner has a writer so impressed me with his rural wisdom. Set in the Welsh countryside, The Long Dry is at once profound and plainspoken, feral and fierce, tender and true. This book is a revelation, and Cynan Jones is a prophet of the wonderfully strange. Peter Geye
The light in this dark tale . . . comes via its language. Jones writes about this mucky, perilous landscape with a simplicity and passion that evoke Seamus Heaneys poetry. Kirkus Reviews
This is a beautiful little novel that leaves the reader reeling with the powerful emotions it manages to render in such a short space and with such sparse language. Cleaver
Have you ever wanted to live in the country? Warning: this book is not about life in the country. Its about life. And death. It will make you cry, both because of the things that happen in it and because of the astoundingly unassuming language in which it is written. Read this book. Annie Bishai, Harvard Book Store
Daugiau informacijos
Endorsements (potential): Han Kang, Helen McDonald, Per Pettersen Early access copies National print, radio, and online campaign Targeted bookseller mailing Excerpts under consideration at N+1, Guernica, Electric Lit Advertising: Bookforum Promotion at: BookExpo America, Winter Institute, AWP, ALA Promotion on Coffee House Press e-newsletter, website, and social media channels Giveaways on Twitter, Instagram & Goodreads Simultaneous print and e-book release, with e-book ISBN to be included on all press materials, author and publisher websites, and whenever print ISBN is listed Targeted publicity to promote author's speaking engagements Promotion via the author's Twitter account, @cynan1975
Cynan Jones was born near Aberaeron on the west coast of Wales in 1975. He is the author of five short novels, The Long Dry, Everything I Found on the Beach, Bird, Blood, Snow, The Dig and The Cove. His work has been translated into several languages, and short stories have appeared in a number of anthologies and publications including Granta.
