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Keyhole Factory

A Novel

William Gillespie

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English
Soft Skull Press
06 November 2012
Set in an alternate present that is a slightly, if dangerously, skewed version of our own, Keyhole Factory tracks the interwoven destinies of disparate characters up to and beyond the end of the world-as-we-know-it, brought on by a global super-virus. Beginning with a biting satire of an academic poetry conference, the novel moves on to encompass the stories of a poet-astronaut, a microbiologist contemplating an exit strategy from her high-level job designing biological weapons, a sports-car-driving killer who stages the aesthetic murders of utopian commune-dwellers, and a lone pirate radio disc jockey who may be the last person left alive broadcasting her story to nobody. Allowing form and content to shape each other, William Gillespie pries open the confusion in a moment of total crisis through a narrative web-work technique derived from deranged fiction pioneer Harry Stephen Keeler.

Part imaginative free-for-all and part deeply felt examination of isolation and survival, the individual lives in Keyhole Factory shine through the chaos in all their beauty and tragedy. With his signature wit and originality, Gillespie spins a glittering fever-dream that questions our assumptions about the way we interpret events and our relation to the planet, without ever losing sight of the underlying experience of what it feels like to be a human being in the world we live in today.
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Imprint:   Soft Skull Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 228mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 30mm
Weight:   482g
ISBN:   9781593764463
ISBN 10:   1593764464
Pages:   416
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

William Gillespie is the author of Keyhole Factory and a founder of Spineless Books, an independent literary publishing house dedicated to the production and distribution of innovative literature.

Reviews for Keyhole Factory: A Novel

Praise for Keyhole Factory <br><br> Gillespie has a keen satiric mind...And although it has become fashionable in recent years for literary authors to take on the apocalypse, you would have to go back to Denis Johnson's Fiskadoro to find such a purely poetic take on the unthinkable. -- Publishers Weekly <br><br> William is a superstar... William's work is compelling and accomplished in its heartcraft, feeling for character, wit, and the kind of perverse humility one sees in writers who are smart enough to know how little can be known for certain. --David Foster Wallace<br>


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