Every year, we see one or two breakout novels by new writers that suddenly capture the public's attention.These are notoriously unpredictable, but here's my prediction anyway. The novel with the best shot at that title is just released this week:
The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore.
And if you live in NYC, the book launch event is tonight at BookCourt in Brooklyn. National tour schedule here. (NY, Chicago, Denver, Iowa, Arkansas, etc.)
The novel is narrated by the world's first chimpanzee to speak. He tells it from prison, where he's been detained for murder.
Here's what I wrote about it last month for The Hipster Book Club, in an entry titled Five Gems You Haven't Read (scroll down toward the bottom for my entry):
I got my first taste of Bruno at a reading in an East Village Bar this fall. I was kind of dreading it. The first reader earned my revulsion. Benjamin won me back. Bruno bit into a peach, and it was so vivid I could taste the spattered nectar filling the room.I'm a really slow reader, so I'm still making my way through it, but loving it. Very talented guy. (And I've met him, and he's really nice, too. I like helping talented people without big heads.)
Bruno is our narrator, and a chimpanzee. That could go horribly wrong. Or make for one hell of a romp. Guess which landed him on this list.
. . . Listening, watching, tasting, smelling...understanding. You can't spill it onto the page unless you absorbed it as it wafted by. Every author on this list understands that. And infuses it.
You can check out Ben's dazzling prose in an online excerpt. It's getting rave reviews, with a big one coming in this weekend's NY Times. Chuck Palahniuk's site is also going to do something with him--I think an interview. I know their critic, and he was blown away by it.
The book made B&N's Discover Great New Writers program, which I believe means it will be 20% off in all there stores for a few months. It's on Amazon, and in all the bookstores. Check it out.
You have never read anything quite like this, and I think you're going to like it.
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it goes on my wish list
i just got home.
really intersting people showed up. and brooklyn is an instersting place. i like it. that part of it.
i just got home.
really intersting people showed up. and brooklyn is an instersting place. i like it. that part of it.
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