Us, Michael Kimball

Us

Michael Kimball

Publisher: Tyrant Books
PubDate: 5/10/2011
ISBN: 9780615430461
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: $14.95
Temporarily Out of Stock
Pages: 203
 

Fiction. A husband wakes up to find that his wife has had a seizure during the night. The husband calls an ambulance and his wife is rushed to a hospital where she lies in a coma. By day, the husband sits beside his wife and tries to think of ways to wake her up. At night, the husband sleeps in the chair next to his wife's bedside dreaming that she will wake up. He wants to be able to take her back home.

Author City: BALTIMORE, MD USA

Michael Kimball is the author of three critically-acclaimed novels, including Dear Everybody and The Way the Family Got Away. Each of his novels has been translated (or is being translated) into many languages. His work has been featured on NPR's All Things Considered and in Vice, as well as The Guardian, Prairie Schooner, Post Road, Open City, Unsaid, and New York Tyrant. He is also responsible for Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (on a postcard) , the documentary films I Will Smash You and 60 Writers/60 Places, and the conceptual pseudonym Andy Devine.

Reviews and Other Links
author site
Lori Hettler @ The Next Best Book Club
Weston Cutter @ Corduroy Books
Russ Marshalek @ Flavorwire
interview by Matthew Simmons @ HTMLGIANT
interview by Jennifer Haupt @ Psychology Today
John Poch @ Big Other
Editor's Pick: Top 10 Best Modern Literary Love Stories @ The Best Damn Creative Writing Blog
Audrey Quinn @ NewPages
Michael Goroff @ Barn Owl Review
Chris Vola @ Word Riot


“Michael Kimball never ceases to astonish. He is a hero of contemporary fiction.”
—Sam Lipsyte

“Be warned: this book has the power to make even the most hard-hearted of readers shed a tear. …Kimball has broken into new territory: [Us] is one of the most graphic depictions of illness and loss I have ever read.”
The Glasgow Herald

“There are two books I can remember that ever made me physically cry. There were the rape scenes in Saramago’s Blindness, and there was nearly every chapter of Michael Kimball’s [US]. While the first hurt because it was so brutal, Kimball’s was a softer kind of invocation—as I read it in a bathtub, I could not shake the feeling of being held, as if somehow the words had interlaced my skin. This is the essence of the magic Michael Kimball holds—his sentences come on so taut, so right there, and yet somehow so calming, it’s as if you are being visited by some lighted presence.”
—Blake Butler


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