A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall - Hardcover

Chancellor, Will

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062280007 ISBN 13: 9780062280008

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2014

Synopsis

[ A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall Chancellor, Will ( Author ) ] { Hardcover } 2014

About this title

Review:

"I fell in love...remind[s] me of the potential of literature... It is a novel that could only be written by one person, at one particular time...the most 'alive' book I've read this year."--John Warner, The Chicago Tribune

"Delightfully bizarre and myth-drunk...A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall's unflagging energy and dramatic battiness make it irresistible. Mr. Chancellor would probably call it Dionysian, and I wouldn't disagree."--Wall Street Journal

"To compare a debut novel to Infinite Jest is likely either too flippant or too generous, but consider the bona fides...Will Chancellor's wonderful debut novel...more than merely promising, is one of the best of the year."--Daily Beast

"Wry, smart, tender, huge-hearted, Will Chancellor strides onto the page in the spirit of Bellow with writing poised like poetry. A dauntless debut."--Paul Lynch

"Simply one of the year's finest books."--Largehearted Boy

"Chancellor writes in the established tradition of the American absurd, from Pynchon and Gaddis to DeLillo and Foster Wallace. Chancellor may be swinging for the former pair, but lands firmly, and thereby accessibly, in the latter."--BookPage

"A wild ride."--Dallas Morning News

"A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall...immediately asserts Chancellor as a promising new voice with the ambition and talent to take him anywhere."--Tweed's

"Chancellor pulls you into his universe, and even if you could get out, you wouldn't want to."--Interview

"A strong new voice in fiction."--Timeout New York

From the Back Cover:

A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall is an exuberant literary debut--a novel of real ideas and a playful examination of our in-between world, one that explores the nature of family, identity, art, and belief while also marking the introduction of an original new voice in contemporary fiction.

Owen Burr is the six-foot-eight, Olympics-bound senior captain of the Stanford University water polo team. In his final collegiate match, however, he suffers a catastrophic injury that destroys his hopes and dreams, flattening his entire world into two dimensions. His identity as an athlete erased but his ambition indelible, he defies his father, a classics professor who lives in a "cave" of his own making, and moves to Berlin with naive plans to make conceptual art. Then he disappears.

Without a single clue as to his son's location, Dr. Burr embarks upon a tour of public lectures from Greece to Germany to Iceland in an attempt to draw out his endangered son. Instead, he foments a violent uprising.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0062280007
• ISBN 13: 9780062280008
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 379