Jesse Ball
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The old-fashioned struggle for fairness has finally been abandoned. It was a misguided endeavor. The world is divided into two groups, pats and quads. The pats may kill the quads as they like, and do. The quads have no recourse but to continue with their lives. The Divers' Game is a thinly veiled description of our society, an extreme case that demonstrates a truth: we must change or our world will collapse. What is the effect of constant fear on...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
A woman "examiner" and a man, her "claimant," move into a small house where the examiner teaches the claimant the most simple functions and monitors his progress, until an encounter at a party raises doubts about everything he has learned.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"How to Set a Fire and Why is a blistering, singular, devastating novel by Jesse Ball ("A young genius who hits all of the right notes." --Chicago Tribune) about a teenage girl who has lost everything and will burn anything. Lucia has been kicked out of school, again, this time for stabbing a boy in the neck with a pencil. Her father is dead; her mother is in a mental institute; and she's living in a garage-turned-bedroom with her aunt. Making her...
4) The curfew
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The author of "The Way Through Doors" and "Samedi the Deafness" returns with this tender, spellbinding novel of a father and daughter living in a city ruled by fear.
5) Autoportrait
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A work of unflinching honesty, Autoportrait is a hypnotic memoir of reflection, loss, and everyday joy from one of America's best contemporary novelists Jesse Ball has produced fourteen acclaimed works of deeply empathetic absurdism in poetry and fiction. Now, he offers readers his first memoir, one that showcases his humane curiosity (James Wood) and invites the reader into a raw and personal account of love, grief, and memory. Inspired by the memoir...
Author
Publisher
Uncivilized Books
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"The hapless Henry King, as advertised, dies. Not just once or twice, but seven dozen times, each death making way for a new demise, moving from the grim to the abusrd to the transcendent and back again. With text by Jesse Ball and Brian Evenson, complimented with gravestone-rubbing-style art by Lilli Carré, Henry King's ends are brought here to vividly absurd life."--page [4] of cover.
7) Census
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
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Description
Learning that he does not have long to live and will need to figure out how to provide for his developmentally disabled adult son, a widower signs up as a census taker for a mysterious government bureau and leaves town with his son on a cross-country journey.
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