From the author of
A Cure for Suicide
and
Census
comes a philosophical recasting of myth and legend, folklore and popular culture: a fabulist’s compendium of poetry and prose.
Jesse Ball—long-listed for the National Book Award, a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, and named one of
Granta
’s best young American novelists—is one of the most interesting, lyrical, fanciful, and “disturbingly original” (
Chicago Tribune
) writers working today. And
The Village on Horseback
is one of his most dazzling and varied works. These experimental pieces—including the
Paris Review
’s Plimpton Prize–winning novella “The Early Deaths of Lubeck, Brennan, Harp & Carr”—ask the reader not to imagine the world for what it is, but for what it could be: a blank tableau on which a spirited imagination can conjure tales out of, seemingly, nothing.
is an unmissable treat, a book of voyages to be taken on journeys far and wide.