There Is No Year: A Novel

There Is No Year: A Novel

<p>"Butler is an original force who is fearless with form. . . . [an] inventive and deeply promising young author." —<em>Time Out New York</em></p><p>"[Butler's] sentences. . . twist and evolve, and there's a perverse joy that comes from watching just how his paragraphs are shaped, of tracing their contractions and rhythms." —<em>Flavorpill</em></p><p>With echoes of Justin Taylor, Tony O’Neill, and Dennis Cooper, breakout novelist Blake Butler delivers a wildly inventive, impressionistic novel of family, sickness, and the wrenching birth of art. Evocative of Mark Z. Danielewski’s <em>House of Leaves </em>and the films of David Lynch, <em>There Is No Year </em>offers a fractured, dystopian parable about the struggle and survival of art, identity, and family. As the Toronto <em>Globe and Mail </em>says, “if the distortion and feedback of Butler's intense riffing is too loud, you may very well be too boring.” </p>