"Walsh handles the seismic events of life a child in intensive care, a pregnancy morphing the body with a sort of alien bluntness and mania for category that forces her language into bizarre, thrilling new shapes. A mind-blowing must-read." Left Bank Books, staff pick"
"Think Renata Adler's Speedboat with a faster engine...VERTIGO reads with the exhilarating speed and concentrated force of a poetry collection. Each word seems carefully weighed and prodded for sound, taste, touch...The stories are delicate, but they leave a strong impression, a lasting sense of detachment colliding with feeling, a heady destabilization." Los Angeles Times"
"This collection of work from 3: AM fiction editor Joanna Walsh makes the familiar alien, breaking down and remaking quotidian situations, and in the process turning them into gripping literature." Vol. 1 Brooklyn"
"VERTIGO is a slim but deadly volume." Sydney Review of Books"
The Millions list of "Most Anticipated for 2015"
Flavorwire's "33 Must-Read Books for Fall 2015"
Paper's "10 Books You Should Be Reading this Fall"
The Huffington Post "15 Fantastic Books by Women to Read this Fall"
"VERTIGO is a slim but deadly volume." Sydney Review of Books"
The Millions list of "Most Anticipated for 2015"
Flavorwire's "33 Must-Read Books for Fall 2015"
Paper's "10 Books You Should Be Reading this Fall"
The Huffington Post "15 Fantastic Books by Women to Read this Fall"
"VERTIGO is artful, intelligent...Walsh is a sublimely elegant writer."--New Statesman
"From the publisher that unearthed the brilliant and now-lauded Nell Zink comes another slim work of fiction as strange as it is compelling. VERTIGO is a funny, absurd collection of stories."--The Huffington Post
"Think Renata Adler's Speedboat with a faster engine...VERTIGO reads with the exhilarating speed and concentrated force of a poetry collection. Each word seems carefully weighed and prodded for sound, taste, touch...The stories are delicate, but they leave a strong impression, a lasting sense of detachment colliding with feeling, a heady destabilization."--Los Angeles Times
Fiction. Women's Studies. "Joanna Walsh's haunting and unforgettable stories enact a literal vertigo—the feeling that if I fall I will fall not toward the earth but into space—by probing the spaces between things. Waiting for news in a children's hospital, pondering her husband's multiple online flirtations or observing the tourists and locals at a third-world archeological site, her narrator approaches the suppressed state of panic coursing beneath things that are normally tamed by our blunted perceptions of ordinary life. VERTIGO is an original and breathtaking book."—Chris Kraus
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