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Oh God, the Sun Goes

David Connor

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English
Melville House Publishing
05 September 2023
The sun has disappeared from the sky. No one can explain where it has gone, but one wayward traveler is determined to try. As our unnamed narrator begins his odyssey across the parched landscapes of the American Southwest, he is drawn into a web of illusion and mystery, a shifting astral mindscape that shimmers with the aftermath of loss-and the promise of redemption.

Oh God, the Sun Goes is a hallucinatory and deadpan picaresque that suddenly swerves into a love story of soaring poignance. Truly ""the stuff that dreams are made of"" - or maybe nightmares?

Apocalyptic, mesmerizing, and utterly unique, Oh God, the Sun Goes introduces readers to a young and keenly inventive mind.

4 one of a kind illustrations within and on the outside a cool holographic foil stamp cover.

""A highly original and engagingly odd book."" - Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World

""...wondrous...mysterious...

Connor

lands plenty of stimulating riffs on

themes of memory, love, and loss,

all in lyrical prose and suffused

with surreal imagery."" - Publishers Weekly

An ""indescribable marvel"" (Jonathan Lethem) of a debut novel from a brilliant new voice

The sun has disappeared from the sky. No one can explain where it has gone, but one wayward traveler is determined to try. As our unnamed narrator begins his odyssey across the parched landscapes of the American Southwest, he is drawn into a web of illusion and mystery, a shifting astral mindscape that shimmers with the aftermath of loss-and the promise of redemption.

Oh God, the Sun Goes is a hallucinatory and deadpan picaresque that suddenly swerves into a love story of soaring poignance. Truly ""the stuff that dreams are made of"" - or maybe nightmares?

Apocalyptic, mesmerizing, and utterly unique, Oh God, the Sun Goes introduces readers to a young and keenly inventive mind.

4 one of a kind illustrations within and on the outside a cool holographic foil stamp cover.
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Imprint:   Melville House Publishing
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 210mm,  Width: 140mm, 
Weight:   369g
ISBN:   9781685890629
ISBN 10:   1685890628
Pages:   240
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

David Connor studied at Pomona College and the California Institute of the Arts, where he was the recipient of the William H. Ahmanson Endowed Scholarship Award. He lives in New York City and Montreal, Canada. Oh God, the Sun Goes is his first novel.

Reviews for Oh God, the Sun Goes

"""Hallucinatory apocalyptic debut novel.""  — Nylon ""Melville House has made a name for itself by publishing experimental fiction, such as Jinwoo Chong’s kinetic first novel, Flux. Now, the house has done it again with Oh God....If you enjoy literary fiction that bends genres and undermines conventional plots, Connor’s novel is probably for you."" — CounterPunch ""...wondrous...mysterious...Connor lands plenty of stimulating riffs on themes of memory, love, and loss, all in lyrical prose and suffused with surreal imagery. This offbeat tale is worth a look."" —Publishers Weekly ""[A] dazzling fabulistic novel."" —Foreword Reviews ""An indescribable marvel ... A writer who will seemingly follow his intuitions anywhere, with blazing results."" —Jonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude ""Oh God, the Sun Goes is what might happen if Raymond Carver and Martin Heidegger were spliced together, given a double PhD in neurology and heartbreak, and decided to write a book that was at once highly symbolic and resonantly human.  A highly original and engagingly odd book."" —Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World ""David Connor's exhilarating debut, Oh God, the Sun Goes, renders our natural world and interior lives with wit, earnestness, and tender observation; exploring love and loss with equal and opposite ache and awe. Connor's prose is effortlessly lyrical, slyly poignant, both daring and deceptively clean; announcing a gutsy new voice to cheer for and cherish."" —Morgan Parker, author of There Are More Beautiful Things than Beyoncé"


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