The Crow's Dinner

The Crow's Dinner

The Crowâ€™s Dinner is master novelist Jonathan Carrollâ€™s debut essay collection, and that is very good news. Gathering together hundreds of entries that initially appeared on the website Medium, The Crowâ€™s Dinner is at once a wide-ranging spiritual autobiography and an annotated guide to what Carroll calls â€œThe Map of Me.â€

Beginning with an appreciation of â€œThe Invisibles,â€ those insignificant moments we overlook at our peril, The Crowâ€™s Dinner encompasses an extraordinary range of incidents, ideas, and images that cumulatively illuminate the inner and outer weather of a major American artist. This generous volume contains fragments of autobiography, reflections on the nature of creativity, vivid recreations of chance encounters, and provocative meditations on the complexityâ€”and unpredictabilityâ€”of human relationships. It is a book filled with colorful vignettes, unexpected bursts of whimsy, and observations filtered through an utterly unique sensibility. Witty, compassionate, open at all times to the â€œmomentary magicâ€ of existence, it is a work of singular beauty that is unlike anything you have ever read.

Since the publication of his first novel, The Land of Laughs, in 1980, Jonathan Carroll has repeatedly offered us new and startling ways of looking at our familiar world. With The Crowâ€™s Dinner, he speaks to us in direct, unmediated fashion about the things that matter most: love, lust, books, dogs, food, friendshipâ€”and the transforming power of the imagination. The result is an intimate, one-of-a kind tour of a lively, unfettered mind. Like the best of Carrollâ€™s fiction, The Crowâ€™s Dinner is a book that matters.

Country	USA
Author	Jonathan Carroll
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781596068285
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Subterranean Press
Manufacturer	Subterranean Press
NumberOfPages	584
PublicationDate	2017-08-31
Publisher	Subterranean Press
ReleaseDate	2017-08-31
Studio	Subterranean Press

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