Confidant

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

D'Stair, Pablo

Thrillers & Suspense

Village Idiot Press

Lucy Jinx (volume two)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

From author Pablo D'Stair (LUCY JINX, REGARD) comes an inimitable portrait of brotherhood and an excavation of the communal folklore which forges artistic perception. FOURTH GRADER, ICHABOD BURLAP AND his brother Alvin lived in a neighborhood where the disembodied parts of a corpse, each armed with some implement of death, roamed without restriction. These maledictions could disguise themselves as animals, each one. Rust-colored squirrel, a hand. Overweight pigeon, a head. Some kids said this shape-shifting is needless as the parts could turn invisible, teleport through solid walls and ceilings. Some kids said all kinds of things. Misinformation. Uninformed lunkheads, disbelieving louts, and daredevils sewing confusion. Were the body parts all of a single corpse? Whose corpse? Was the dead man contemporary, ancient? Were the body parts as much a disguise as the animals? Was this menace - entity, lifeforce - not of our physical or psychic realm? Some kids said they knew. Some kids said all kinds of things. Some kids were, one day, never heard from again ... THE DISEMBODIED PARTS is an autobiographical novel evoking a childhood exactly as it was - which is precisely as it wasn't.

The Disembodied Parts: a rhapsody

A novel at once gargantuan and miniaturist - a portrait-of-the-artist equal parts romance, comedy, and horror-show - LUCY JINX is an intimate Epic, spanning eight years in the life (and innermost mind) of the titular poet as she navigates ambitions, friendships, lovers, and above all her monstrous, psychically tumultuous relationships with language, identity, and purpose. VOLUME ONE contains the definitive texts of Part One and Part Two of the novel in their entirety.

Lucy Jinx (volume one)

"Pablo D'Stair is defining the new writer. There is NO ONE else. As reckless as Kerouac's 120-foot trace paper, D'Stair's independence from all of us needs to be studied and celebrated." (TONY BURGESS author of People Live Still In Cashtown Corners) Village Idiot Press presents the definitive editions of the collected novels, novella, and short stories of author Pablo D'Stair. The 42 volumes are presented in the chronological order of composition, 2000-2020. From OCTOBER PEOPLE: 'I wanted' Clarence went on 'an encounter. An encounter with another person, one meaningful, difficult if not impossible to forget. An encounter which would be more than a memory, would be a living desire. A woman, for example - to meet a woman, fall in love with her, long for her, think of her, only of her to feel the genuine presence of the romantic, not to mock it up - after all, why forget something that isn't real?' "D'Stair doesn't just write like a house afire, he writes like the whole city's burning, and these words he's putting on the page are the thing that can save us all." (STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES author of The Only Good Indian)

October People

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