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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe



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Light Boxes

by Shane Jones

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Synopses & Reviews

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Novel about a war waged by a group of balloonists against the month of February.

Review:

"We expect a vibrant imagination in our authors, but charm is an underrated quality, and Jones has both in spades." Time Out Chicago

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"The premise here is strange, but simple. Jones does not attempt to blister the story with literary haymakers. He keeps his language clean and fresh. But he is able to pair techniques to render beautiful images . . . Marvelous." New Pages

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"Jones's startingly imaginative voice is like some winged thing — brave, victorious, and solitary. LIGHT BOXES is a beautiful, heartful work." Deb Olin Unferth, author of Vacation.

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In his debut novel Shane Jones achieves a glittering clearness that allies it to Brautigan’s In Watermelon Sugar. There is sense that curiosity and hope are the qualities we most require, that we must resort to in our peril. Balloonists, aloft!" Jesse Ball, author of The Way Through Doors

About the Author

Shane Jones lives in upstate New York.

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Kelly Schirmann, July 29, 2009 (view all comments by Kelly Schirmann)
Shane Jones' Light Boxes is a beautiful, imaginative, and poetic collection of prose vignettes that underline the need for and undeniable existence of hope and love in a world that sometimes seems sad and dismal. Jones creates a dreamlike landscape where his characters face the worst - an unending February, deep bouts of sadness, the loss of loved ones - but also discover within themselves and each other the possibility of beauty and happiness that can overcome even the coldest winter. Read this book! Not only is it one of the most creative and well-written small press novels I've read in some time, but it will make you believe that love and loveliness are hiding in everything.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780982081310
Publisher:
Publishing Genius
Copyright:
Author:
Jones, Shane
Edition Number:
1st
Publication Date:
February 2009
Language:
English
Pages:
175
Dimensions:
5 x 7 in.

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