Flamingos

Flamingos

Fiction. Faced by hospitalizations, therapies and rehabilitations, the characters in FLAMINGOS are in a permanent state of psychological mutation. In exchange for melancholy reminiscences about their mundane existence, false messiah Simon holds out a promise of release from the drudgeries and depressions of Middle America.<br /> <br /> Grant Maierhofer's polyphonic voice formally recalls such Modernist masterpieces as Virginia Woolf's <em>The Waves</em>. Nonetheless, this book is wholly his own, a brilliant, idiosyncratic exploration of the fragmented twenty-first-century mind.<br /> <br /> "A New Novel in an era where there can almost no longer be a novel at all, but information."—Blake Butler<br /><br /> "Part Beckett, part Unabomber manifesto, part Laurie Weeks, Grant Maierhofer's FLAMINGOS is singularly alive and wild." —Maggie Nelson<br /> <br />"Elliptical, surgical, Flamingos is also grim, smart, funny and syntactically menacing..."—Sam Lipsyte