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eternal life
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Product details
- ISBN 9781950539703
- Dimensions: 139 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 06 Apr 2023
- Publisher: Dzanc Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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An intense, surreal story of family and growing up, perfect for fans of Matt Bell and The Immortalists.
A mother clings to twin sons, desperate to keep them from becoming their father, a pirate forever sailing away. In this rain-soaked township, she will attempt to mummify them, piece by piece, to stop them from growing up, a hope founded in magic and immortality. Meanwhile, their father obsesses the seas with his own belief in ever-lasting life, learning too late that his heart belongs on shore.
In Only and Ever This, a family must endure father loss, a mother’s grief, and roiling adolescence, slipping as it does into arcades, caves, and the young love for a ghostly girl up the street.
J. A. Tyler is the author of The Zoo, a Going
(Dzanc Books). His fiction has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Hayden’s
Ferry Review, Black Warrior Review, Fairy Tale Review, and The
Brooklyn Rail among others. He has given workshops and readings at
universities and writing conferences around the U.S., including AWP, Lake
Forest’s &Now series, the National Writing Project at Colorado State
University, and the Bankhead Visiting Writers Series at the University of
Alabama. He lives in Colorado.
