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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.
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