Gary Amdahl: 2 books
Much Ado About Everything
Oration on the Dignity of the Novelist
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Much Ado About Everything is Gary Amdahl's full-throated defense of the novel as a technology of mystery, means by which we might second-handedly engage not only (as one of Amdahl's exemplary figures memorably put it) "nothing that is not there but also the nothing that is." Amdahl's energetic...
The Daredevils
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
A twelve-year-old boy, middle son in a wealthy, politically and culturally prominent San Francisco family, watches his city disappear in the earthquake and fires of 1906. His father him that nothing has been lost that cannot be swiftly and easily replaced. He quotes Virgil: “Nothing unreal is allowed...