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Three Hundred Million 300,000,000 by Blake Butler - VERY GOOD Trade Paperback

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Condition
Very good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious ...
Type
Paperback
ISBN
9780062271853

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062271857
ISBN-13
9780062271853
eBay Product ID (ePID)
167716498

Product Key Features

Book Title
Three Hundred Million : a Novel
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Topic
Psychological, Horror, Crime, Thrillers / Suspense, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Author
Blake Butler
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
16.9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

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Trade
Reviews
"This book is the poetry of insanity. Hugely beautiful and monstrously disturbed. I love it, and Blake Butler's mad criminal mind." -- Warren Ellis, author of Gun Machine and Crooked Little Vein " 300,000,000 establishes Blake Butler as our premier literary shaman. . . . [It] draws us into the darkest circles of human motivation. You'll think about it daily and return to it compulsively; it will leave you with fever dreams of the highest possible resolution." -- Alissa Nutting, author of Tampa "This book is like a Rorschach blot made of blood. All my darkest visions appeared there. Blake Butler's work is not for the faint of heart. And I mean that as a high compliment." -- Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation, This book is like a Rorschach blot made of blood. All my darkest visions appeared there. Blake Butler's work is not for the faint of heart. And I mean that as a high compliment., Praise for: Nothing "All words normally used to craft literary reviews fail. This is an entirely original work that does what the best art should do: challenge the reader. The novel is like a 4G version of fiction . . . There are also all the elements of a traditional book, with fully developed characters, mystery, and movement that readers enjoy--and an evocative narrative voice sustained for 400 pages. Butler takes these ingredients and renders them into a dreamlike whorl, a highly stylized read that serves quite well as a metaphor for our new digital age. And like the best of dreams, There Is No Year also sticks in the brain long after the book is set down." -- The Atlantan "Lyrical...A weird, waking-dream of a memoir superbly illustrating the relentless inner spin of the insomniac." -- Kirkus "Butler is an original force who is fearless with form. . . . [an] inventive and deeply promising young author." -- Time Out New York, This book is the poetry of insanity. Hugely beautiful and monstrously disturbed. I love it, and Blake Butler's mad criminal mind., 300,000,000 establishes Blake Butler as our premier literary shaman. . . . [It] draws us into the darkest circles of human motivation. You'll think about it daily and return to it compulsively; it will leave you with fever dreams of the highest possible resolution.
Synopsis
An unforgettable novel of an American suburb devastated by a fiendish madman--the most ambitious and important work yet by "the 21st century answer to William Burroughs" (Publishers Weekly). Blake Butler's fiction has dazzled readers with its dystopian dreamscapes and swaggering command of language. Now, in his most topical and visceral novel yet, he ushers us into the consciousness of two men in the shadow of a bloodbath: Gretch Gravey, a cryptic psychopath with a small army of burnout followers, and E. N. Flood, the troubled police detective tasked with unpacking and understanding his mind. A mingled simulacrum of Charles Manson, David Koresh, and Thomas Harris's Buffalo Bill, Gravey is a sinister yet alluring God figure who enlists young metal head followers to kidnap neighboring women and bring them to his house--where he murders them and buries their bodies in a basement crypt. Through parallel narratives, Three Hundred Million lures readers into the cloven mind of Gravey--and Darrel, his sinister alter ego--even as Flood's secret journal chronicles his own descent into his own, eerily similar psychosis. A portrait of American violence that conjures the shadows of Ariel Castro, David Koresh, and Adam Lanza, Three Hundred Million is a brutal and mesmerizing masterwork, a portrait of contemporary America that is difficult to turn away from, or to forget., An unforgettable novel of an American suburb devastated by a fiendish madman-the most ambitious and important work yet by "the 21st century answer to William Burroughs" (Publishers Weekly). Blake Butler's fiction has dazzled readers with its dystopian dreamscapes and swaggering command of language. Now, in his most topical and visceral novel yet, he ushers us into the consciousness of two men in the shadow of a bloodbath: Gretch Gravey, a cryptic psychopath with a small army of burnout followers, and E. N. Flood, the troubled police detective tasked with unpacking and understanding his mind. A mingled simulacrum of Charles Manson, David Koresh, and Thomas Harris's Buffalo Bill, Gravey is a sinister yet alluring God figure who enlists young metal head followers to kidnap neighboring women and bring them to his house-where he murders them and buries their bodies in a basement crypt. Through parallel narratives, Three Hundred Million lures readers into the cloven mind of Gravey-and Darrel, his sinister alter ego-even as Flood's secret journal chronicles his own descent into his own, eerily similar psychosis. A portrait of American violence that conjures the shadows of Ariel Castro, David Koresh, and Adam Lanza, Three Hundred Million is a brutal and mesmerizing masterwork, a portrait of contemporary America that is difficult to turn away from, or to forget., An unforgettable novel of an American suburb devastated by a fiendish madman--the most ambitious and important work yet by "the 21st century answer to William Burroughs" ( Publishers Weekly ). Blake Butler's fiction has dazzled readers with its dystopian dreamscapes and swaggering command of language. Now, in his most topical and visceral novel yet, he ushers us into the consciousness of two men in the shadow of a bloodbath: Gretch Gravey, a cryptic psychopath with a small army of burnout followers, and E. N. Flood, the troubled police detective tasked with unpacking and understanding his mind. A mingled simulacrum of Charles Manson, David Koresh, and Thomas Harris's Buffalo Bill, Gravey is a sinister yet alluring God figure who enlists young metal head followers to kidnap neighboring women and bring them to his house--where he murders them and buries their bodies in a basement crypt. Through parallel narratives, Three Hundred Million lures readers into the cloven mind of Gravey--and Darrel, his sinister alter ego--even as Flood's secret journal chronicles his own descent into his own, eerily similar psychosis. A portrait of American violence that conjures the shadows of Ariel Castro, David Koresh, and Adam Lanza, Three Hundred Million is a brutal and mesmerizing masterwork, a portrait of contemporary America that is difficult to turn away from, or to forget.
LC Classification Number
PS3602.U8665A616

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