Come On, Eileen - Softcover

Stephens, M. G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 196390866X ISBN 13: 9781963908664

Verlag: Spuyten Duyvil Publishing, 2025

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How superbly imagined these pieces are, with surprises at every turn. M. G. Stephens is a writer forever interested in the endless wandering mystery of being human. The book is a treasure.
Joan Silber, author of Improvement

On M. G. Stephens

“Michael Stephens’ voice prowls through his own experience with a savage yet lyrical intensity. An impressive book.”
Rudolph Wurlitzer

“It is a joy to read because Michael Stephens is such a superb writer, a master of language, in short, a poet. In his immaculate artistry he has given us another way of perceiving our lives and our struggle, forcing us to ask ourselves what our legacy will be.”
Hubert Selby Jr.

“It’s an eloquent style that calls for reading aloud, an urban Irish style perhaps, perfect for nipping out the back door, rolling garbage cans as obstacles after you, and loping over the rooftops to safety in a vacant lot.”
Rolling Stone

“Great God a-mighty! The Brooklyn Book of the Dead is one powerful, beautifully written book. One of the absolute mysteries of art is that it can depict the ugly, the revolting, and the nauseating so that the attractiveness of the performance, and its truth, balance the grime of the subject matter. Am I on course to see both Joyce and Barthelme in this 400-horse-power prose?”
Guy Davenport

“Michael Stephens was my Dante into dark and dangerous places that native Irish writers never knew. Mr. Stephens, sardonic, witty, places his characters in the path of an oncoming future that seems to offer little hope though you know in the end they’ll prevail.”
Frank McCourt

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

M. G. Stephens (Michael Gregory Stephens) was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and further out on Long Island, into a family of sixteen children. His father came from Ireland and his mother was from an old New England family whose ancestors included a North African indentured servant to the Wheelock family, the founders of Dartmouth College. His mother grew up in a 27-room Brooklyn mansion on Madison near Stuyvesant, right where Spike Lee shot Do the Right Thing, which was also a few blocks from where Stephens lived as a child. He has been around boxing all his life. He also worked various jobs, including a stint in the Merchant Marine, greens-keeping, being a caddy, Christmas tree salesman on the Lower East Side, gas-pump jockey, dishwasher, East Asia correspondent, bartender, and of course journeyman boxer and sparring partner. He lived for many years (15) in London, but now resides just north of Chicago, and has been exiled from New York for over twenty-five years. Kid Coole is the third novel about the Coole family, the other two being The Brooklyn Book of the Dead and Season at Coole, whose fiftieth anniversary of its publication by E. P. Dutton is in 2022. These novels comprise The Coole Trilogy. Besides Kid Coole, Spuyten Duyvil has just published Stephens' novel, King Ezra, about Ezra Pound.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Spuyten Duyvil Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 196390866X
• ISBN 13: 9781963908664
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 236
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