John High
TALKING GOD’S RADIO SHOW

Spuyten Duyvil
ISBN 10: 1-933132-44-2

ISBN 13: 978-1-933132-44-0
Paper, 350 pp., 5.5x8
$16

“Soaked in night visions and pierced through by jagged memory, Talking God’s Radio Show tells that peculiarly American story in which, as Faulkner once said, ‘The past isn’t forgotten, it isn’t even the past.’ John High’s Virginia backwaters call to mind the feral, hallucinogenic American landscapes of Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God, as well as Faulkner’s Sanctuary. His journey through their underworld of racial and sexual transgression sparks caustic, brain-searing consequences—we discover, at the soul’s black bottom, a resolute will to rise up and die, as if both actions were one in the same. This novel is an lyric ode to the heart’s ineluctable damnation and redemption.” —Albert Mobilio

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