"A restlessly inventive collection, as the best story collections so often are -- comic and tender, ironic and earnest, deadpan and passionate. A distinctive new voice, from a distinctive new press."
-- Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl
All Over will be in stores October 23, 2007, but you can guarantee your copy by pre-ordering one today by visiting http://www.dzancbooks.org/allover.html and clicking on the PRE-ORDER button. For just $13.95 plus $4 postage and handling, you will either have a copy delivered to your door just before the book hits stores, or, if you prefer, a signed copy will arrive about one week after the book is publicly available (once you order, we'll contact you to find out which you prefer).
Roy Kesey has been hailed as one of our best young writers, and All Over presents 19 of his most original and latest stories. George Saunders called Kesey’s writing, “beautiful and powerful... mythic, vivid, heart-rending." Roy's work has appeared in over 50 top flight literary journals,including Alaskan Quarterly Review, Mississippi Review, and The Georgia Review. Several of the stories in All Over first appeared in journals such as The Kenyan Review, McSweeney's, Other Voices and The Iowa Review. His story "Wait" will be included in Best American Short Stories 2007.
-- Benjamin Percy, author of The Language of Elk and Refresh, Refresh
"These stories by Roy Kesey, in the way they brilliantly blend humor and pathos, remind me of coins tossed in the air, turning over and over, one side cast in light, the other in darkness. His writing is original, fearless, strikingly funny, and clean - so clean - his words sharp enough to cut the eye."
-- Benjamin Percy, author of The Language of Elk and Refresh, Refresh
when will that email go out to find out which we prefer? i ordered mine a couple days ago.
thanks--------chris
Posted by: chris | June 28, 2007 at 04:36 PM
Who DOESN'T want their copy signed!? Well, then again, I've never seen Kesey's handwriting. Hmmm... Guess I'll just have to chance it.
Posted by: Rebecca Kanner | June 28, 2007 at 10:29 PM