Vertical Sleep
A Novella
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Vertical Sleep
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David Alexander
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About this listen
In his vivid hybrid novella Vertical Sleep, author David Alexander creates startling narrative pyrotechnics whose brilliance challenges the reader at every turn of the page and forces a rethinking of individual personality and its ultimate relationship to the nature of reality.
Alexander's extraordinary gifts as a storyteller have been recognized by many. Here are two examples:"Alexander is a modern de Maupassant with a Kafkian sense of linearity, a Borges-esque bent for the uncanny, and a unique pile of resources to draw on. ...His stories transcend interpersonal morality and ethics in a way calculated to elicit the pure subjectivity of the characters, without judgment. Unlike Dostoyevsky's Raskolnikov, there is no redemption offered to readers demanding moral resolution. Poe's The Tell-tale Heart and much of Lovecraft's work come closest to what he does. Kafka gets the intellectual setup but doesn't develop the emotional intensity. [Alexander's] work is very unique. --Songwriter, poet, author and stage performer Robert Hunter
"There are few story writers working today more vibrant, innovative and exciting than David Alexander. His stories jump off the page in fits of sensory attack, spiritual complication, emotional trouble. I don't know where he came from, but I know where he's going -- to the front rank of American storytellers." -- Author, Poet, Songwriter and Mississippi Review Editor Frederick Barthelme
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