The Long Slide, by Blair Oliver and Peter
Soliunas
(World Audience, Inc.: New York,
Newcastle)
February 2010
ISBN: 978-1935444589
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"Dazzling debuts are rare as stardust.
And
phew-oh,
The
Long Slide
is glittering,
one of
those novels I'd like to quote whole chunks of. Here are two of my
favourite lines:
'There
were two kinds of drunks, the ones who needed another beer to keep
settled and the ones who used that extra beer to get unsettled.
I was
always the former.' And,
'A
bitterer pill was never swallowed in the name of pride.'
And
that's just in the first ten pages!
The
Long Slide
is a blast of sheer nitro-plotting with a narrator who's so full on, you
feel you've known him always.
This novel announces a huge new voice; it's a book that's
going to be on everyone's list by the end of the year."
--Ken Bruen, author of The Guards, Once Were
Cops, and
London Boulevard
"Clever, smart, cynical
dialogue...narrative I'd give an arm to be able to write.... The
Long Slide is a wild ride through the new wild, wild west with
gunfights, open mine shafts, a dame to kill (or be killed) for and one
man's journey back to himself and trout fishing. An excellent debut."
--Charlie Stella, author of Jimmy Bench-Press, Shakedown, and
Mafiya
The Long Slide is a crime novel set in the new, roadside West, where bison graze alongside billboards of bison and even accountants pack heat. Henry Gavin, the narrator, is a bamboo fly rod aficionado and editor of the Copper Falls Gazette, the only newspaper in a dying, Colorado mining town. Copper, the town's last best resource, is also its curse. The land and its waters are beautiful, but deadly.
Last Call is a collection of
nine
stories ranging from a
boy's
coming-of-age on the
Jersey Shore
through the
complications of love, lust,
and marriage in the New West.
"Last
Call is the most deserving collection
I have read in a long, long time and I am silenced
for how splendid and days later my heart
still aches from reading these powerful
stories about the contrary lives of the beings
we call human."
--Robert Olmstead,
author of Far Bright Star, Coal Black Horse, and
River Dogs
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Last Call (World Audience, Inc.: New York,
Newcastle)
September 2007
ISBN: 978-1934209745
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