To Deer at Swim

by Jamison Lee

Book Overview

Detailed by a slack neologist who's waiting to die but has "apparently hired a lazy assassin," puckish academics and the plotted theft of sex parts impel the multi-layered narrative hooey of this darkly comic, metafictive love story. Jamison Lee's debut novel, To Deer at Swim, tells the story of Benny Huckman-seemingly a human magnet for animal death-as he learns to cohabitate with Wentworth, his former gender studies instructor, now an expelled scholar unlearning the difference between sincerity and sarcasm; November, his vegan girlfriend, who's recently escaped her ex's rabid Marxism and frenzied plans of sexual reassignment; and a mouse who is at the flighty center of a battle between the will to dominate and the ability to empathize. Benny is unaware, however, that his story might end as suddenly as a cat in his path if the narrator's assassin finally comes through and settles, once and for all, this little debate regarding the death of the author.An uproarious and madcap satire that remarks on the violence of outgroup bias, gender injustice, and chauvinism in academia, this novel, not unlike the O'Brien masterpiece that inspired it, is just the kind of smut one would find being burned by militias and the national police: a work of remarkable wit that refuses the redress of cynicism for the fools that we so egregiously are.-Gabriel Gudding, author of Rhode Island Notebook & Literature for NonhumansTo Deer at Swim is what would happen if James Joyce and William Gass got together with a case of good whiskey and a fresh clone of David Goodis in some crummy Midwestern motel. A fantastic achievement -Donald Ray Pollock, author of The Devil All the Time& The Heavenly Table

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1943170304
• ISBN13: 9781943170302
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Lit Fest Press / Festival of Language
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"