- Paperback: 170 pages
- Published: 11/1/04
- IBSN: 9781888451733
- Genre: Fiction
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The Fall of Heartless Horse
The fourth installment and first female author in Dennis Cooper’s groundbreaking Little House on the Bowery series.
What people are saying…
“Tumultuous and beautiful, an emotional inquiry into writing and the nature of illusion, so highly pleasurable, a surprise and triumph for the American novel.”
—Claude Simon, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
“I love this book. How Martha Kinney created this utterly unique and powerful piece of writing—a family saga about sex, love, money, power, and inheritance (among other themes) that blends the best agendas of prose and poetry in its operatic narrative arc, beautifully fuses the diction of historical epic and postmodern friskiness, and is bursting with drama, satire, comedy, absurdity, wit, intrigue, and intense emotion—is beyond me. As a grateful and admiring reader I can only thank her for this work and eagerly await more.”
—Amy Gerstler, author of Ghost Girl
Description
A selection of Dennis Cooper’s Little House on the Bowery series.
The Fall of Heartless Horse is a postmodern multigenerational family drama that is dark, hilarious, moving, and wildly original. By turns lyric, comic, and tragic, it deals with greed, inheritance, heroism, capitalism, sex, and the intertwining of public and private histories. Kinney has brought to life an amazing cast of characters with a “novella in verse” combining elements from ancient Scottish sagas, songs, legal documents, new age literature, and interviews. This startling, inventive debut, which draws on traditions of both poetry and prose, has been compared with the works of Lewis Carroll and Anne Carson, and evokes qualities of opera, epic, and melodrama as well. A soaring energetic, one-of-a-kind text, The Fall of Heartless Horse explodes different forms, gutting and reanimating them. Here is a deeply affecting tale of ruthlessness, loss, rivalry, and the difficulty of finding one’s place in the world.
- Subjects: Literary Fiction, Women’s Studies
- Tags: debut, Dennis Cooper's Little House on the Bowery series, Martha Kinney
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Author
MARTHA KINNEY won the Menn Prize for Fiction at the University of Chicago and the Olin Poetry Award, the Elizabeth Jones Writing Scholarship, and the Pazo Mayberry Poetry Award from the University of New Hampshire. She lives in San Francisco. The Fall of Heartless Horse is her latest novel.