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The "heart-stopping" (The Millions), "richly layered" (Brooklyn Rail), "haunting, beautiful" (BuzzFeed) story of an escaped captive and the killer hound that pursues him
"Slave Old Man is a cloudburst of a novel, swift and compressed—but every page pulses, blood-warm. . . . The prose is so electrifyingly synesthetic that, on…
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This book is a lyrical explosion that left me in heart-pounding awe.
Don’t let the simplicity of the title fool you. The novel booms with fireworks from page one. Fueled by a gripping chase, a riotous history in miniature of the Caribbean, and the monologues of three mesmerizing characters strung together with all that is human and inhuman sounding within them, in sound and sense, it is one of the most exquisitely written books I have ever read.
While a furious pursuit propels the story, its author has taken risks that twist the telling in unexpected directions. Get lost in…
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