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Immobility

by Brian Evenson
Immobility

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ISBN13: 9780765330970
ISBN10: 0765330970



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When you open your eyes things already seem to be happening without you. You don't know who you are and you don't remember where you've been. You know the world has changed, that a catastrophe has destroyed what used to exist before, but you can't remember exactly what did exist before. And you're paralyzed from the waist down apparently, but you don't remember that either.

A man claiming to be your friend tells you your services are required. Something crucial has been stolen, but what he tells you about it doesn't quite add up. You've got to get it back or something bad is going to happen. And you've got to get it back fast, so they can freeze you again before your own time runs out.

Before you know it, you're being carried through a ruined landscape on the backs of two men in hazard suits who don't seem anything like you at all, heading toward something you don't understand that may well end up being the death of you.

Welcome to the life of Josef Horkai….

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“Immobilitys bleak landscape and doubting yet relentless protagonist display Brian Evenson, one of our best and bravest novelists, at his most probing and mordant. The book might almost be the product of a collaboration between the younger Samuel Beckett and the mid-career Buster Keaton. No one else in America is writing like this, and no one but he possesses Evenson's ravishing, diamond-like focus.”

—Peter Straub, New York Times bestselling author of A Dark Matter

 

 “Evenson is stunning, a postapocalyptic Dashiell Hammett, in this blistering tale. I read Immobility from cover to cover without stirring from my chair, and I imagine most readers will share that fate.”

—Jesse Ball, Plimpton Prize-winning author of The Curfew

 “Brian Evenson is one of the treasures of American story writing.”

 —Jonathan Lethem, New York Times bestselling author of Chronic City

"There is not a more intense, prolific or apocalyptic writer of fiction in America than Brian Evenson."

—George Saunders, New York Times bestselling author of The Braindead Megaphone

"Brian Evenson is one of the most distinguished, probing, and courageous writers of his generation.”

—Bradford Morrow, O. Henry Prize-winning author of Diviners Tale

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From the award-winning author Brian Evenson comes Immobility, a far-future thriller that looks at a post-human world struggling to stay human

When you open your eyes things already seem to be happening without you. You don't know who you are and you don't remember where you've been. You know the world has changed, that a catastrophe has destroyed what used to exist before, but you can't remember exactly what did exist before. And you're paralyzed from the waist down apparently, but you don't remember that either.

A man claiming to be your friend tells you your services are required. Something crucial has been stolen, but what he tells you about it doesn't quite add up. You've got to get it back or something bad is going to happen. And you've got to get it back fast, so they can freeze you again before your own time runs out.

Before you know it, you're being carried through a ruined landscape on the backs of two men in hazard suits who don't seem anything like you at all, heading toward something you don't understand that may well end up being the death of you.

Welcome to the life of Josef Horkai....


About the Author

Brian Evenson has written several works of fiction, including The Wavering Knife, for which he was awarded IHG Award for best story collection, and The Open Curtain, an Edgar Award finalist. His most recent novel, Last Days, won the ALA award for Best Horror Novel of 2009 and was on Time Out New Yorks list of top books of 2009. Evenson is the director of Brown Universitys Literary Arts Program and is the recipient of an O. Henry Prize and an NEA fellowship. He has also written Dead Space novels under the name B. K. Evenson.

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ISBN:
9780765330970
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
04/09/2013
Publisher:
Tor Books
Language:
English
Pages:
256
Height:
.80IN
Width:
5.40IN
LCCN:
2012000985
Author:
Brian Evenson
Subject:
Psychological

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