{"product_id":"sky-saw-paperback","title":"Sky Saw - 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\u003eBlake Butler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf there's a more thoroughly brilliant and exciting new writer than Blake Butler . . . well, there just isn't.--Dennis Cooper\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlake Butler, mastermind and visionary, has sneaked up and drugged the American novel.--Ben Marcus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI could go on at what these days were but the truth is I am tired. Would you even believe me if I did or didn't? Could this paper touch your face? I've spent enough years with my face arranged in books. I've read enough to crush my sternum. In each of the books are people talking, saying the same thing, their tongues thin and white and speckled.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI don't want to be here. I want to get older. I want to see my skin go folding over.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSomeday I plan to die.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBooks that reappear when you destroy them, lampshades made of skin, people named with numbers and who can't recall each other, a Universal Ceiling constructed by an otherwise faceless authority, a stairwell stuffed with birds: the terrain and populace of \u003ci\u003eSky Saw\u003c\/i\u003e is packed with stroboscopic memory mirage. In dynamic sentences and image, Blake Butler crafts a post-Lynchian nightmare where space and family have deformed, leaving the human persons left in the strange wake to struggle after the shapes of both what they loved and who they were.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlake Butler\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eEver\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eScorch Atlas\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThere Is No Year\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNothing: A Portrait of Insomnia\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the editor of the literary blog HTMLGIANT.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlake Butler is the author of Ever (Calamari), Scorch Atlas (Featherproof) and There Is No Year \u0026amp; Nothing (HarperCollins). He runs the blog htmlgiant.com and lives in Atlanta, Ga.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 247\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.4 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 11, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47237196054777,"sku":"9780985023508","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/OGVlNENYN2o2M2FycngxSnVQTW9odz09.webp?v=1768539042","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/sky-saw-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}