Deep ellum
By: by Brandon Hobson
Publisher: Calamari Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: NY, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781940853017
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: American fiction; FICTION
Description: "DEEP ELLUM is a novel of beauty and power, about family and transcending family, lives unwinding even as they tangle together. Brandon Hobson writes luminescent prose of hard-edged, quiet intensity. His narrator owns a voice at once mysterious and intimate, like a long-lost, slightly suspect friend returning to tell you how the world really is. In a mere 120 pages, Hobson fashions a universe so vivid you can read it in one sitting and stagger back to the world entranced."--Jerry Stahl "Both dreamy and gritty, bleak and oblique, DEEP ELLUM treads the sketchy margins of Dallas, following one young man as he tries to reconnect with his family and reconcile his mystifying past with his uncertain present. Brandon Hobson's mordant portrait of the lost and damaged among us recalls the estranged, drifting world of Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son."--Stewart O'Nan
Notes: Novel.

"Excerpts from Deep Ellum appeared, sometimes in radically different form, in NOON, Web Conjunctions and The Literarian."--title page verso.