JEF BOOKS · PAPERBACK · 2018 · ISBN 9781884097782
Praise
The words — and then sentences, paragraphs and chapters — flowed buoyantly on the ebb of their own rhythm; it is such a rare treat to have a work that sings itself to you. I did not so much read it as move with it and that is a very fine thing. Please know that you have, with this work, a much deserved winner, a book that can and will carry Patchen's name on its cover earnestly, respectfully and forevermore.
The Skrat Prize Memorial Anthology was chosen as the winner of the Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel over many other worthy candidates for the exceptional craft and originality with which it is written as well as for its deep sympathy for the human condition, both qualities epitomized by Kenneth Patchen himself.
for the Innovative Novel · 2017
The Skrat Prize Memorial Anthology
The Skrat Prize Memorial Anthology is R. M. Strauss's debut and the 2017 winner of the Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel. It remains his only book in print.
Its narrator is Dr. Michael H. J. Tizard, an embittered editor who, late in life, assembles the anthology of the title out of extracts from five novels under his control, bending their separate voices toward his own motive. What looks like a curated collection is in fact one editor's macabre legacy, and the seams between the borrowed texts are where the book does its work.
The novelist Dominic Ward, blurbing it, wrote that he did not so much read it as move with it. The 2017 Patchen jury chose it for the exceptional craft and originality with which it is written, and for the deep sympathy for the human condition both qualities carry, qualities the prize names for Patchen himself.
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 212
- Imprint
- JEF Books
- Year
- 2018
- ISBN
- 9781884097782
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