{"product_id":"kamby-bolongo-mean-river-paperback","title":"Kamby Bolongo Mean River - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Lopez\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKamby Bolongo Mean River\u003c\/i\u003e, Robert Lopez's hypnotic second novel, is the story of a young man whofinds himself confined and under observation, the subject of seemingly pointless tests. His only link to the outside world is a telephone that will not dial out. During the occasional calls he receives, usually wrong numbers, the narrator remembers his former life growing up in Injury, Alaska with his Mother, an often unemployed single parent, and his older brother, Charlie, a sometime boxer, sometime actor. Throughout the course of this extraordinary novel, the unwilling captive draws his life-story in stickfigures on the walls. From the difficulty of his birth, to his sickly childhood, to adventures with his brother, the narrator depicts his crazy life, which is at once fascinating and heartbreaking. The one memory that haunts him is that of watching a movie about slaves on television and how that one slave, the one for whom Kamby Bolongo Mean River meant freedom, would never relinquish the idea of returning home. Darkly hilarious with a crushing emotional impact, \u003ci\u003eKamby Bolongo Mean River\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant study of familial bonds and trauma, isolation and captivity, hope and hopelessness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eKamby Bolongo Mean River\u003c\/i\u003e is an original and fearless fiction. It bears genetic traces of Beckett and Stein, but Robert Lopez's powerful cadences and bleak, joyful wit are all his own.\"\u003cb\u003e--Sam Lipsyte\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eauthor of\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eHome Land \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"In \u003ci\u003eKamby Bolongo Mean River\u003c\/i\u003e damage and delusion walk hand in hand, and everything we think we know is gradually called into question. Reading like a cross between Samuel Beckett's 'The Calmative' and Gordon Lish's \u003ci\u003eDear Mr. Capote\u003c\/i\u003e, Robert Lopez's new novel gets under your skin and latches on.\"\u003cb\u003e--Brian Evenson\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Open Curtain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Lopez is the author of Part of the World, a novel from Calamari Press. His fiction and poetry has appeared in dozens of journals, including; Bomb, The Threepenny Review, The Mississippi Review, Indiana Review, New England Review, New Orleans Review, Blackbird, Nerve, etc. He teaches at The New School in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 188\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47263443747065,"sku":"9780976717768","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/N8uUvO4SHZ9780976717768.webp?v=1768818615","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/kamby-bolongo-mean-river-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}