Cannonball by Joseph Mcelroy

Cannonball by Joseph Mcelroy

Move over, Pynchon--the 83-year-old Joseph McElroy is as inventive as ever, and this time he takes on the Iraq War. --Tom LeClair, The Daily Beast

Since 1966, McElroy's novels have astonished and delighted by their brilliant wit, intelligence, and style.--Washington Post Book World

McElroy is rightly compared with Gaddis and Pynchon.--Harper's Magazine

Written in a voice of passion, warning, and awakening, Joseph McElroy's ninth novel, Cannonball, takes us to a distant war we never understood and have half forgotten upheld by an unearthed new testament and framed by the American competitive psyche; yet always back to a California family, a bold intimacy between brother and sister, and a story of two springboard divers and their different fates.

Joseph McElroy is the recipient of the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Ingram Merrill foundations, as well as the NEA. He lives in New York City.

Joseph McElroy is the author of nine novels, including A Smuggler's Bible (Harcourt), Hind's Kidnap (Harper & Row), Ancient History: A Paraphase (Knopf), Lookout Cartridge (Knopf), Plus (Knopf), Women and Men (Knopf), The Letter Left to Me (Knopf), Actress in the House (Overlook), and Cannonball (Dzanc, 2013). His short novella about India, Taken From Him, has just been published as an Amazon Kindle Single. Another novella, Preparations for Search, appeared in 2010. Night Soul and Other Stories, a volume of short fiction, was published by Dalkey Archive Press in 2011. A volume of his essays, Exponential, has been published in Italy and in expanded form will be forthcoming from Dzanc.

His non-fiction book about water is close to completion. Three short plays are forthcoming, and a children's book. He received the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and D.H. Lawrence Foundations, twice from Ingram Merrill and twice from the National Endowment for the Arts. Among other universities he has taught at Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, University of New Hampshire, Temple, NYU, the University of Paris, and the City University of New York. McElroy was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1930. He was educated at Williams College and Columbia University.

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ISBN 13	9781938604218
ISBN 10	1938604210
Title	Cannonball
Author	Joseph Mcelroy
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Dzanc Books
Year published	2013-07-30
Number of pages	312
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