Coffee House Press, October 2006
Advance Praise for The Open Curtain:
"Whenever I try to describe the resonant and disturbing literature
that Horror, whether acknowledged or not, lately has found itself
capable of producing, I find myself alluding to Brian Evenson, along
with Graham Joyce and a few others: of these splendid younger
writers, Evenson places himself furthest out on the sheerest, least
sheltered narrative precipice—narrative at the far edge of
narrative possibility—where he can speak clearly and plainly of loss, violence, and pain.
THE OPEN CURTAIN is, very simply, a stunning book."
—Peter Straub
"Brian Evenson is one of the most distinguished, probing, and courageous writers of his generation. His work has never flinched from addressing the most difficult, dangerous issues, and with The Open Curtain he leads us into a world few have lived in specifically, but resonates in all our lives. Family, secrecy, truth, anger, history, the desire to belong, the need to discover oneself—all these fundamentals are the grist in the mill of Evenson's marvelous, disturbing novel."
—Bradford Morrow
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