Description: Slab by Selah Saterstrom Tiger-stripper, felon, bestselling author-on dancing as Helen Keller, her grandfathers suicide, 18th century killers, and the best red velvet cake. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Selah addresses Katrina here by making the personal the site of aftermath. Theres a great upwelling of work thats been done since the hurricane (Tretheway, et al), but this represents one of the more exciting attempts in prose. Theres already an audience eager for a new book from Selah-her particular blend of southern gothic, feminism, and intimate violence has really rabid fans who have been waiting for another book. Having this also close out the trilogy also gives us a hook to hang it on. Readers who love the texture of the sentence, and the mimetic possibilities of language, will gravitate to Selahs work, despite its narrative difficulties. Selah is the rare writer who uses experimental difficulty to access the political-shes a lot like Karen Tei Yamashita in that respect. The use of the slab as a dramatic space, and the inclusion of Barbara Waters as Tigers interlocutor, give the novel a spaciousness and humor thats new to her work. The book will look similar to the first two volumes of the Beau Repose trilogy (Pink Institution and Meat and Spirit Plan) and have french flaps. Author Biography Selah Saterstrom is the author of the novels Slab, The Meat and Spirit Plan, and The Pink Institution, all published by Coffee House Press. Widely published and anthologized, she also curates Madame Harriette Presents, an occasional series. She teaches and lectures across the United States and is the director of Creative Writing at the University of Denver. Review The Volta, "Books of 2015" picked by Laura Mullen Praise for Selah Saterstrom "Brutal but also deeply lyrical, Saterstroms beautiful novel paints a portrait of a family wracked by its own dysfunction and held fast by a place that has never fully recovered since the day the Civil War began--the day known, as the book tellingly reminds us, as Ruination Day." --Publishers Weekly "In her latest novel Selah Saterstrom confirms her status as one of Americas premier narrative archaeologists." --Los Angeles Review "The writing constantly swerves from the sensational to the sincere, which gives it resonance and, ultimately, makes the book so darn likeable... Slab is a definite must-read." --NewPages "[Slab is] absorbingly, concisely written ... weirdly wonderful." --Library Journal "[Saterstrom has] a poets ear for language and a comics feel for timing... complicated, beautiful, whimsical, troubling, and heart-breaking." --Full-Stop "Bawdy, funny, and thought-provoking... deeply southern, very American, decadent and devastating." --BookRiot "Saterstrom has created a novel told in several genres... if you like something a bit unusual, and you appreciate new approaches to storytelling, this may be the tale for you." --Georgia Review "Saterstroms narrators charm the reader with their mix of naivete, natural curiosity, and keen, intelligent observation... The novels stark and varied form also mimics a careful sleight of hand." --Atticus Review "[Tiger] navigates the world around her with guile and intelligence, and each act or chapter adds facet-like depth and meaning... As Slab makes clear: in this world which daily hoists abuse and crisis and deprivation on our souls, theres still room for saving grace and experimental books that are a pleasure to read." --Southern Literary Review "Slab is one of those novels that hits you fast and hard, that you finish in one sitting, gulping down like an ice-cold glass of water." --Weird Sister "Saterstroms strength as an author is her ability to straddle this line between the colloquial and the academic while offering us a deeply flawed protagonist who is both compelling and tragic." --Vol. 1 Brooklyn "...From page one, the story takes off at a breakneck pace and proceeds with all the force of a hurricane." --NewPages "Its subject matter will be familiar: Southern poverty, institutional misogyny, gun violence, Hurricane Katrina, the Confederate Flag, and most painfully, their amalgam wound. Its perspective, though, promises to be wholly new: Tiger is a ferocious protagonist whose spirit outgrows her circumstance so long as its not stultified by weary traditions." --Brazos Bookstore "Offbeat. Comic. Bawdy. Savage. Moving." --Lively Arts "[Slab] brings up questions that are deeper than the comical nature of some of the tales, such as, "Do you believe in life after death?" ... There is meaning to be taken from Slab. You simply have to find it in your own way, just as Tiger does." --Memphis Flyer "The Meat and Spirit Plan is ferocious and dazzling, the work of a savage poet. Every scene is a hard polished gem of raunch and revelation. Strung together they build a force of piercing tenderness. Its an impressive achievement, and a real pleasure to read." --Katherine Dunn "Saterstrom writes with a poets economy and eye for visceral detail, collapsing into a mere 140 pages a four-generation history of a Southern family bedeviled by alcoholism, poverty, racism, violence, and mental illness. Her spareness is a mercy. The story she tells is brutal, almost impossible to take; at the same time, her exquisite, cut-to-the-quick language makes this book impossible to put down." --The Huffington Post, included in "11 Underappreciated Literary Masterpieces" "Despite her kinetic prose and the variousness of her forms, Saterstroms oeuvre is intelligent in its cohesion and destination." --Brazos Bookstore "Stories that are good must be told and this one tells its way right into your subconscious and stays there until you fall asleep, haunting you with words and images." --Bookslut Promotional 400+ GalleysNational print, radio, and online campaignTargeted bookseller mailingAdvertising: BookforumPromotion at: BookExpo America, Winter Institute, ALA Annual, AWPPromotion on Coffee House Press e-newsletter, website, and social media channelsGiveaways on Twitter, Goodreads, and LibraryThingSimultaneous print and e-book release, with e-book ISBN to be included on all press materials, author and publisher websites, and whenever print ISBN is listedTargeted publicity to promote authors speaking engagementsPromotion via e-postcard to the authors mailing list Long Description On a slab thats all Katrina left of her Mississippi home, Tiger tells her story, and it is as American as Horatio Alger, Schwabs Pharmacy, and a tent revival. She was a stripper, but is she now a performance artist and best-selling author, and it is really Barbara Walters shes narrating this tale to? Were too dazzled to know more than that this is about how a girl ends up in the backwash of decadence and sin and how out of the flotsam and jetsam she might construct a story of herself and the South to carry her to salvation. Serial killers, preachers, and prison flower-arranging classes. Bikers, bad boyfriends, and a stripper who performed as a Trans Am. Tiger has seen it all and as she sits on her slab, identifying anecdotes as they go by, we witness Selah Saterstrom at her greatest--funny, bawdy, and steeped in the landscape and all the devastation it has created and absorbed. Selah Saterstrom is the author of the novels The Pink Institution , The Meat and Spirit Plan, and Slab , all published by Coffee House Press. She is also the author of Tiger Goes to the Dogs , a limited edition letterpress project published by Nor By Press. Her prose, poetry, and interviews can be found in publications such as The Black Warrior Review , Postroad , Tarpaulin Sky , Fourteen Hills , and other places. She is the director of the PhD program in creative writing at the University of Denver and teaches and lectures throughout the United States. Review Quote The Volta, "Books of 2015" picked by Laura Mullen Praise for Selah Saterstrom "Brutal but also deeply lyrical, Saterstroms beautiful novel paints a portrait of a family wracked by its own dysfunction and held fast by a place that has never fully recovered since the day the Civil War began--the day known, as the book tellingly reminds us, as Ruination Day." Competing Titles The Hour of the Star Clarice Lispector 9780811219495 12.95 New Directions 11/2011 Boy, Snow, Bird Helen Oyeyemi 9781594631399 27.95 Riverhead 3/2014 Kind One Laird Hunt 9781566893114 14.95 Coffee House Press 9/2012 Red Doc> Anne Carson 9780307950673 15.95 Vintage 3/2014 Description for Sales People Selah addresses Katrina here by making the personal the site of aftermath. Theres a great upwelling of work thats been done since the hurricane (Tretheway, et al), but this represents one of the more exciting attempts in prose. Theres already an audience eager for a new book from Selah--her particular blend of southern gothic, feminism, and intimate violence has really rabid fans who have been waiting for another book. Having this also close out the trilogy also gives us a hook to hang it on. Readers who love the texture of the sentence, and the mimetic possibilities of language, will gravitate to Selahs work, despite its narrative difficulties. Selah is the rare writer who uses experimental difficulty to access the political--shes a lot like Karen Tei Yamashita in that respect. The use of the slab as a dramatic space, and the inclusion of Barbara Waters as Tigers interlocutor, give the novel a spaciousness and humor thats new to her work. The book will look similar to the first two volumes of the Beau Repose trilogy (Pink Institution and Meat and Spirit Plan) and have french flaps. Details ISBN156689395X Author Selah Saterstrom Pages 186 Year 2015 ISBN-10 156689395X ISBN-13 9781566893954 Format Paperback Imprint Coffee House Press DEWEY 813.6 Birth 1974 Publisher Coffee House Press Place of Publication MN Country of Publication United States Short Title SLAB LTD/E Language English Media Book Subtitle On That Hallelujah Day When Tiger and Preacher Meet UK Release Date 2015-08-27 Publication Date 2015-08-27 NZ Release Date 2015-08-27 US Release Date 2015-08-27 Illustrations B&W photos, B&W illustrations Audience General AU Release Date 2015-08-10 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137680850;
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ISBN: 9781566893954
Book Title: Slab
Item Height: 190mm
Item Width: 127mm
Author: Selah Saterstrom
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Books
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Publication Year: 2015
Item Weight: 240g
Number of Pages: 186 Pages