Synopses & Reviews
Composed of three Will Christopher Baer novels Kiss Me, Judas; Penny Dreadful; and Hell's Half Acre the Phineas Poe omnibus follows the eponymous disgraced cop as he encounters the seedy underground denizens of Denver, San Francisco, and high plains Texas. Enthralled by a beautiful and deadly woman named Jude, Phineas follows her across a surreal internal landscape of stolen kidneys, violent fantasy games, and snuff films.
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"The writing is perfect, synergistic and so beautifully interwoven with the story, the reader is put through and extraordinary experience." Hubert Selby, Jr., author of Last Exit and Requiem for a Dream
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"Baer's writing has an undeniable force it's sordid and entrancing, hallucinatory and yet given to brutal realism." The Times (London)
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"Baer is, without a doubt, a writer of talent and promise." The Denver Post
About the Author
Born in Mississippi in 1966. Old Southern family. Lived in Montreal and Italy as a child. Spent high school in Memphis, Tennessee. Attended college in New Orleans, Louisiana (Tulane). Dropped out. Finished B.A. at Memphis State. Received MFA 1995 from Jack Kerouac School at Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. California since 1996, Bay Area, L.A., now Santa Barbara. Worked as homeless counselor, taxi driver, bartender, video store geek, college professor (Evergreen State, Olympia, Washington), screenwriter, and journalist. Short stories published in numerous places, notably Nerve and Bomb. Married, two children, one by previous marriage. One brother. Parents living in North Carolina.