Fiction. FIREWORK is the story of a man, who, though ill-equipped to help himself, attempts to help someone else, and the beautiful catastrophe that results. Often unbearably intense, it is also an exhilarating expression of the nobility of the all-too human impulse to be more than what we seem to be.
Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA
Eugene Marten is the author of IN THE BLIND (Turtle Point Press, 2003), WASTE (Ellipsis Press, 2008), and FIREWORK (Tyrant Books, 2010). He lives in New York City.
Reviews and Other Links
Kimberly King Parsons in Time Out New York
Snowden Wright in The Rumpus
Blake Butler @ The Brooklyn Rail
excerpt in The Brooklyn Rail
Gordon Lish video review