small drunken cog in a giant destructive empire*

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

The Only Thing(s) to Fear

There's a review of Monkeytown in The Brooklyn Rail this month. Thanks to Stephen Cicerelli for his kind words. Also, thanks to the Rail.

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*I too, at one time, felt the elation of being a small drunken cog / in a giant destructive empire. / It means when you do nothing

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"Chris Vola serves up some wicked thrills in this killer novel. Only the Dead Know Brooklyn is a fast-paced, scary book with a wicked sense of humor."

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Chris Vola’s debut novel, Monkeytown, is an indictment of American suburbs, a reminder that there is nothing scarier than young white people with lots of free time.

- The Brooklyn Rail
"The joy of Monkeytown is discovering Vola’s mastery. He is virtuosic at parceling out surprises. The layers of emotional and character complexity he unveils over hundreds of pages set in a place where people are regularly beaten, raped, and killed, all the while intensifying the drama and humanity of the abusers and the abused without treating either gratuitously, indicate a writer confident and daring enough to assume he has the reader’s trust, a trust Vola repays time and time again."

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"Vola has his ear to the street. He's tapped into his generation here. Whatever he does next, watch out."

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"Monkeytown is a frightening vision of what we might become."

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"A hoaxy, scaly Halliburton nightmare. Vola's hot-headed nihilism will wake you up screaming."

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