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In two artfully crafted novellas, Colin Winnette offers a sly and sinister portrayal of lineage and loss, and the roles we all play in writing our own family history. Written in a seamless, entrancing style, Gainesville follows the twisted branches of a restless family tree in a small Texas town. As tragedy strikes each generation in increasingly skewed fashion, what remains is the relentless passage of time toward an eerily familiar pattern of violence. In One Story, The Two Sisters...
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In two artfully crafted novellas, Colin Winnette offers a sly and sinister portrayal of lineage and loss, and the roles we all play in writing our own family history. Written in a seamless, entrancing style, Gainesville follows the twisted branches of a restless family tree in a small Texas town. As tragedy strikes each generation in increasingly skewed fashion, what remains is the relentless passage of time toward an eerily familiar pattern of violence. In One Story, The Two Sisters is woven from an array of beautifully haunting short stories. It details the lives of two sisters, both cast as wildly imaginative entities, each more bizarre than the next. Winnette joyfully plays with life forms as he presents the sisters as (1) an olive at the bottom of a dirty marti∋ (2) Shel Silverstein; (3) transoceanic swimmers, and so on. The result is an entertaining, skillful meditation on art, love, family, the creative impulse, and what can and cannot be communicated in a single story, or a single life. ADVANCE PRAISE “Winnette moves in and out of plot as if to deny the very idea of plot, yet adores narratives so ardently he fills every space with a new tale or idea. It becomes a balancing act, a house of cards where each card is a story and each story has the same face, his own, which is also that of his minions. Let him be the historian of a young nation yet unseen.” — Jesse Ball, author of The Curfew “Winnette, like the best AM radio preachers, is able to make a story out of everything and nothing, and still make you believe. These startling, well-muscled novellas will take you places you didn't even know existed and then leave you there to fend for yourself.” — Brian Evenson, author of Immobility and Last Days “Keep your eye on this Colin Winnette. He’s a gifted stylist, and quite often a funny one.” — Adam Levin, author of Hot Pink and The Instructions