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	Fiction NonFiction Poetry Film Art MEB Authors Press Events Distribution Booksense Contacts	The Conviction and Subsequent Life of Savior Neck Christian Tebordo $13.00, fiction, paperback pub date: February 2005 5.5” x 8.5”, 208 pp. 0-9720662-8-4 A searingly intelligent first novel that declares its odd originality in every sentence. Christian Tebordo shows that it is possible to be, simultaneously, a wise old soul and a crazed young terror. George Saunders For existentialism, death is the insurmountable condition that gives life both its meaning and its finitude. TeBordo's fiction, on the other hand, offers us a book that begins with a man who is fully conscious of the fact he is dead but who continues to live on anyway, surrounded by a cast of types that seem like refugees from the grittiest, funniest Coen Brothers movies. The Conviction & Subseqent Life of Savior Neck is about the absurdity of both existence and non-existence; it is an exploration of responsibility, ethics, and aesthetics that is at once funny and frightening. This is a smart and surprising first novel. Brian Evenson Christian TeBordo's novel is relentlessly astonishing. It's absurd without being grotesque. It's funny without being silly. It's original without being pretentious—so original that it's hard for me to describe the level of reality at which it operates except as that of its own absorbingly nutty invention. The book is, I should add, absolutely and compulsively readable. Harry Mathews Christian TeBordo was born in Albany, New York. He earned a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Syracuse University where he was a fellow in creative writing. His fiction has appeared in 3rd Bed, Reinventing the World and 9th Letter. He and his wife Kathryn, a choreographer, live in Philadelphia.

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The Conviction and Subsequent Life of Savior Neck
Christian Tebordo

$13.00, fiction, paperback

pub date: February 2005

5.5” x 8.5”, 208 pp.

0-9720662-8-4

A searingly intelligent first novel that declares its odd originality in every sentence.
Christian Tebordo shows that it is possible to be, simultaneously, a wise old soul
and a crazed young terror. George Saunders

For existentialism, death is the insurmountable condition that gives life both its meaning and its finitude.
TeBordo's fiction, on the other hand, offers us a book that begins with a man who is fully conscious
of the fact he is dead but who continues to live on anyway, surrounded by a cast of types that seem like
refugees from the grittiest, funniest Coen Brothers movies. The Conviction & Subseqent Life of Savior Neck
is about the absurdity of both existence and non-existence; it is an exploration of responsibility, ethics,
and aesthetics that is at once funny and frightening. This is a smart and surprising first novel.
Brian Evenson

Christian TeBordo's novel is relentlessly astonishing. It's absurd without being grotesque. It's funny without
being silly. It's original without being pretentious—so original that it's hard for me to describe the level of
reality at which it operates except as that of its own absorbingly nutty invention. The book is, I should add,
absolutely and compulsively readable. Harry Mathews

Christian TeBordo was born in Albany, New York. He earned a BA from Bard College and an MFA from
Syracuse University where he was a fellow in creative writing. His fiction has appeared in 3rd Bed,
Reinventing the World and 9th Letter. He and his wife Kathryn, a choreographer, live in Philadelphia.