The Blood Poetry (Paperback)

Description

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Is Epstein a despicable man? He's certainly trying desperately at something. When his wife disappears he's frantic to talk to his daughter. But what can he tell her? There must be a reason and he's all but sure about the gruesome answer. Can he protect Sylvia from the truth, from her terrible lineage and, ultimately, from himself? Off-beat and sordid, THE BLOOD POETRYis a twisted, yet honest look at our desire to connect with others and the ways in which we are often stymied by our own efforts to get closer. Epstein is a curious mix of monster and romantic struggling to maintain a shred of dignity in his dingy, beat down world.

Praise For…

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"From some forgotten box under Patrick Bateman's bed comes this rat rod of a novel: ragged, supercharged and wildly inappropriate. A Bataille sitcom full of meat and mommies." --(Grace Krilanovich, author of The Orange Eats Creeps and named a "Top 5 Under 35" by the National Book Foundation in 2010)



AUTHOR Blurb (Excerpt): "This is so smart and fascinating. I have never read anything like this before...It is beautiful! Unflinching!."-- (Rachel Sherman, author of The First Hurt named one of 25 Books to Remember in 2006 by New York Public Library)



BLURB: "Horror writing that is as it should be: penetrating deep into the psyche, so much so that it changes how you look at the world. We think it will go down as a classic." (Farley's Bookshop)



REVIEW (Excerpt): "A brilliant, brutal assault of a novel—raw, twisted, and compulsively readable." --(Shelf Unbound Magazine, 2012)



REVIEW (Excerpt): "If one new horror book out there embodies the intelligence of great literary fiction with the best elements of psychological horror, The Blood Poetry has to be it...paragraphs screamed, asking to be taken out and plastered on gigantic billboards so everyone could enjoy their humor, brutality or blood-splattered philosophy."--(Horror Talk, 2013)



REVIEW (Excerpt): "Pitts-Gonzalez tears apart what we know of structure and character, narrative and theme ... has brought to us his vision and his is uncompromisingly surreal and vicious in its value of entertainment." -- (Shock Horror, 2013)