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description: A writer travels to Mexico City in search of a new story...but the monsters are already waiting for her. The more she writes the more their whereabouts as well as their desperation are revealed. The Monster Opera is a gothic literary noir a genre-bending novel-meets-libretto that combines recitative with dialogue aria with prose and ultimately asks the question: Who owns a story? The Monster Opera is a multi-genre extravaganza and the second flash novel available from Bartleby Snopes Press. The Monster Opera is a brilliant and beautiful work a rising crescendo of action in a haunting tale of love. Many authors strive for that perfect note yet Stohlman does the unbelievable turning words on the page into a truly operatic monster which comes alive in the very first scene.--J.A. Kazimer author of Dopesick: A Love Story and ShankAt one point I found myself pledging my life and allegiance like an old Camelot knight to the life and the legacy of the Opera. If a dragon were to threaten it for some dragon reason I would've totally put down this pint of whiskey and slain it. Because this Opera must live on! Its safety is more important than my own.--Rob Geisen author of The Aftermath Etc.In a swell of lyrical prose that drips itself across the borders of music and literature Nancy Stohlman delivers a self-aware story that sings out from the page like an opera trapped in the belly of an Old World curse. A love affair drunk on magical realism somehow as ancient as it is avant-garde. --Kona Morris author of Godless ComicsI don't know shit about opera and many would say less about literature. But I know plenty about these kind of monsters. And I know for damn sure you should be reading Nancy Stohlman.-- Benjamin Whitmer author of Satan Is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers
language: English
title: The Monster Opera
publisher: Bartleby Snopes Press