Oh God, The Sun Goes
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
"A highly original and engagingly odd book." - Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World
"...wondrous...mysterious...Connor lands plenty of stimulating riffs on themes of memory, love, and loss, all in lyrical prose and suffused with surreal imagery." - Publishers Weekly
An "indescribable marvel" (Jonathan Lethem) of a debut novel from a brilliant new voice
The sun has disappeared from the sky. No one can explain where it has gone, but one wayward traveler is determined to try. As our unnamed narrator begins his odyssey across the parched landscapes of the American Southwest, he is drawn into a web of illusion and mystery, a shifting astral mindscape that shimmers with the aftermath of loss—and the promise of redemption.
Oh God, the Sun Goes is a hallucinatory and deadpan picaresque that suddenly swerves into a love story of soaring poignance. Truly “the stuff that dreams are made of” – or maybe nightmares?
Apocalyptic, mesmerizing, and utterly unique, Oh God, the Sun Goes introduces readers to a young and keenly inventive mind.
4 one of a kind illustrations within and on the outside a cool holographic foil stamp cover.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Connor's wondrous if slight debut begins with an amnesiac narrator announcing the central conceit: the sun has gone missing. In its absence, a "blinding grey" emits from the sky. Intent on getting some answers, the narrator travels to nearby Sun City to meet Dr. H.A. Higley, who has studied the sun extensively. Along the way, he stops at the Sun City Museum, where a guide vaguely but strenuously stresses the importance of the retirement community's planner, Del Webb. When the narrator finally gets to Higley's house, Higley's wife shows him the last note her husband wrote before he entered a deep sleep; though it just reads "bumble bee," the message leads the narrator further on his journey to find out what happened to the sun. More mysterious events follow, including an encounter with Webb, and eventually the narrator's road trip blurs into a meditation on aphasia and a tour of the human brain ("In a region of the city, Amygdala, space collapses into a dark cloud where nothing can be seen"). Though the narrative tends to feel like an overlong short story, Connor lands plenty of stimulating riffs on themes of memory, love, and loss, all in lyrical prose and suffused with surreal imagery. This offbeat tale is worth a look.
