Sky Saw by Blake Butler

Sky Saw by Blake Butler

If there's a more thoroughly brilliant and exciting new writer than Blake Butler . . . well, there just isn't.--Dennis Cooper

Blake Butler, mastermind and visionary, has sneaked up and drugged the American novel.--Ben Marcus

I could go on at what these days were but the truth is I am tired. Would you even believe me if I did or didn't? Could this paper touch your face? I've spent enough years with my face arranged in books. I've read enough to crush my sternum. In each of the books are people talking, saying the same thing, their tongues thin and white and speckled.

I don't want to be here. I want to get older. I want to see my skin go folding over.

Someday I plan to die.

Books that reappear when you destroy them, lampshades made of skin, people named with numbers and who can't recall each other, a Universal Ceiling constructed by an otherwise faceless authority, a stairwell stuffed with birds: the terrain and populace of Sky Saw is packed with stroboscopic memory mirage. In dynamic sentences and image, Blake Butler crafts a post-Lynchian nightmare where space and family have deformed, leaving the human persons left in the strange wake to struggle after the shapes of both what they loved and who they were.

Blake Butler is the author of Ever, Scorch Atlas, There Is No Year, and Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia. He is the editor of the literary blog HTMLGIANT.

BLAKE BUTLER is the author of Nothing, There is No Year, Scorch Atlas, and Ever, whose firework-studded prose has been praised by the New York Times.
JOSHUA COHEN is the author of Witz, A Heaven of Others, and Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto. The New York Times compared him to Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace. His book, Four New Messages, is due out from Graywolf Press in August.
TRACY KEATON has written for LA Weekly, various internet music publications, Thought Catalog, interviewed Iggy and the Stooges for the DVD Escaped Maniacs, and will have an essay on the Shangri-Las featured on Rhino's Singles Website. She blogs at bubblegumforthesoul.

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ISBN 13	9780985023508
ISBN 10	0985023503
Title	Sky Saw
Author	Blake Butler
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Tyrant Books
Year published	2012-12-11
Number of pages	200
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.