A precocious boy and his harried father are making a movie from scratch, using only materials in the backyard--or entertaining the possibilities. Their discussion expands to an examination of various cosmogonies and cosmologies, rational and borderline-psychotic, and gradually becomes a duel to the death
"Tom Bradley is one of the most exasperating, offensive, pleasurable, and brilliant writers I know. I recommend his work to anyone with spiritual fortitude and a taste for something so strange that it might well be genius." —Denis Dutton, editor ofArts & Letters Daily
"[A]mong the most influential media personalities in the world," —Time Magazine
"When is the world going to wake up to the genius of Tom Bradley? One of the most criminally underrated authors on the planet." —Andrew Gallix, of theGuardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, the Independent, Literary Reviewand theTimes Literary Supplement
"The contemporaries of Michelangelo found it useful to employ the termterribilitato characterize some of the expressions of his genius, and I will quote it here to sum up the shocking impact of [Tom Bradley's novelActing Alone] as a whole. I read it in a state of fascination, admiration, awe, anxiety, and outrage." —R.V. Cassill, editor ofThe Norton Anthology of Fiction
Tom Bradley has published twenty-eight books with houses in the USA, England and Canada. He has received nominations for the Editors Book Award, the New York University Bobst Prize, and the AWP Series. 3:AM Magazine gave him the Nonfiction Book of the Year Award in 2007 and 2009. His journalism and criticism have appeared in Salon.com and Arts & Letters Daily.
A poignant new collection of 'grotesque' poetry by Tom Bradley, who has been called one of the most criminally underrated authors on the planet, by Financial Times lSw
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