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"The dark incantations that open and close "Word Made Flesh" are mesmerizing. The scope of the book links enormous and terrifying acts of imagination . . . A potent cocktail of Lovecraft, Poe, and hardcore American noir." Katherine Dunn, author, "Geek Love""

"A hardcore work of art, equal parts ultraviolence and poetry. Sucks you in and doesn't let go." - Poppy Z. Brite, author, Lost Souls

To call Jack O Connell s novels imaginative, or even original, doesn t begin to say it. . . . There s something both exciting and unnerving about [his] kind of hallucinatory writing. New York Times Book Review"

"Awildly original novel, part hard-boiled crime novel, part literary thriller, and part postapocalyptic cartoon. Scenes, characters, and the locale of Quinsigamond, a failed industrial city west of Boston, conjure echoes of the ever-nocturnal Gotham City from Tim Burton's Batman films . . . readers should follow Gilrein into the dark night of Quinsigamond." Booklist"

"Once again, O'Connell . . .tests the boundaries of noir mystery/suspense in this latest mind-boggling installment . . . nightmarishly original." Kirkus Reviews"

"Hyper-real noir. A grotesque romance about genocide, language, bibliomania, doubt, obsession, worms, epidermis and sanctuary!" --James Ellroy

"The dark incantations that open and close Word Made Flesh are mesmerizing. The scope of the book links enormous and terrifying acts of imagination . . . A potent cocktail of Lovecraft, Poe, and hardcore American noir." --Katherine Dunn, author, Geek Love

"To call Jack O'Connell's novels imaginative, or even original, doesn't begin to say it. . . . There's something both exciting and unnerving about [his] kind of hallucinatory writing." --New York Times Book Review

"A wildly original novel, part hard-boiled crime novel, part literary thriller, and part postapocalyptic cartoon. Scenes, characters, and the locale of Quinsigamond, a failed industrial city west of Boston, conjure echoes of the ever-nocturnal Gotham City from Tim Burton's Batman films . . . readers should follow Gilrein into the dark night of Quinsigamond." --Booklist

"Once again, O'Connell . . . tests the boundaries of noir mystery/suspense in this latest mind-boggling installment . . . nightmarishly original." --Kirkus Reviews
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Why would two Eastern European meatboys want to whack an innocent cab driver? That's the question that occurs to Gilrein as Raban and Blumfeld press the gun barrel into his mouth. Does it have something to do with the ritual death-by-flencing of Leo Tani? Or does the answer involve Gilrein's ex-lover, now working as a librarian for a bibliomaniac gangster. Or maybe the whole thing has something to do with the Inspector, inventor of the notorious Methodology? And how does Bobby Oster figure in the mix, with his crew of murder-for-hire rogue cops who call themselves The Magicians? To find the answers, Gilrein will drive the night streets of his hometown and face down more than one demon from his past. From the Vacuum, where child-artists are held captive in veal pens and forced to forge graphic novels, to the Houdini Lounge, where the second annual immigrant death-match is being marketed, Gilrein will wander the underworld, collecting stories and looking for absolution. In the end, he'll brush up against "Alicia's Tale" and learn new truths about the terrifying negotiations always taking place between the storyteller and the audience in the city of Quinsigamond.

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  • PublisherNO EXIT PRESS
  • Publication date2005
  • ISBN 10 1842431587
  • ISBN 13 9781842431580
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  • Number of pages300
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