Synopses & Reviews
Partisans is a lost work by the mysterious writer Geoffrey Peerson Leed, presented in nine parts according to Leed's designs as indicated in manuscripts discovered after his disappearance. One half of
Partisans concerns an unspecified war in an unspecified past, the other half centers on Leed himself as he struggles to survive in an unspecified future. At the heart of the book is our present moment, though never dealt with explicitly. Beyond that,
Partisans eludes simple description.
Partisans was shortlisted for the 2014 Flann O'Brien Award
Synopsis
Through the lost work of the mysterious Geoffrey Peerson Leed, this novel describes a brutal war in an unspecified past as well as Leed's struggle to survive in paranoiac future riven by totalitarianism and social decay. The book is presented in nine parts according to the designs indicated by Leed in the manuscripts that were discovered after his disappearance. Everywhere at its heart, the book speaks boldly to our contemporary moment: a time of unbridled surveillance, constant war, and maddening technological upheaval.
About the Author
M. Allen Cunningham is the author of the novels
The Green Age of Asher Witherow (a #1 IndieNext Pick) and
Lost Son (about the life and work of Rainer Maria Rilke), the illustrated, limited-edition short story collection
Date of Disappearance and two volumes of nonfiction,
The Honorable Obscurity Handbook and
The Flickering Page: The Reading Experience in Digital Times. He lives and works in the Northwest Territory.
G.P. Leed lived and worked in the Northwest Territory.