Joseph G. Peterson’s Inside the Whale is a part tall tale, part tragedy, part symbolist epic. His Jim O’Connor, the disastrous hero of this work, is a whorl of grief, reckless charm and surly poetic ambition. But as fascinating as it is to watch the antiheroic O’Connor churn through misadventures, oracular bursts of poetry and failed loves, perhaps Inside the Whale’s most moving passages are about Chicago, captured in Peterson’s beautiful coda to this boisterous yarn. From first word to last, this is a book infused with spirit, heart and awe.”—Gregory Lawless author of I Thought I Was New Here
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Inside the Whale--A Novel In Verse
I'm happy to report that my book, Inside the Whale: A Novel in Verse, is now available in stores!
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