The History Of Luminous Motion
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This is a revised edition with a new afterword by the author.
"If you spot it, grab it. A powerful piece of work." J.G. Ballard
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"Imagine the movie "The Bad Seed" as rewritten by Sam Shepard and Gunter Grass . . . a stylistic tour de force." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"A fantasia of desire and destruction . . . unique and refreshingly challenging. A radiant debut." The Boston Globe
"As disorienting as it is seductive . . . casts an utterly irresistible spell. This is the voice, recombinant and renewed, of Thomas Pynchon exploring the reaches of inner and outer space, Don DeLillo exposing the vile politics of technology, John Leonard spitting up the whole vile twentieth century . . . a daringly original literary sensibility." Newsday
"Provides welcome evidence that . . . the poetry of America is not entirely dead." New York
"As mysterious, beautiful, sad and frightening as . . . childhood itself." Michael Chabon
"Makes every other contemporary novel I have read this year look ghostly, implausible and irrelevant." Spectator
"An excellent book, a display of talent in full self-possession." Times Literary Supplement
"Stunning." Katherine Dunn
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