World Gone Water
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– LAURA VAN DEN BERG, author of The Isle of Youth
“An engrossing novel about longing and impersonation, which is to say, a story about the distance between persons, distances within ourselves. Clarke’s prose is infused with music and intelligence and deep feeling.”
– CHARLES YU, author of Sorry Please Thank You
“Vernon Downs is a fascinating and sly tribute to a certain fascinating and sly writer, but this novel also perfectly captures the lonely distortions of a true obsession.”
– DANA SPIOTTA, author of Stone Arabia
Selected by The Millions as a Most Anticipated Read
“Though Vernon Downs appears to be about deception and celebrity, it’s really about the alienation out of which these things grow. Clarke shows that obsession is, at root, about yearning: about the things we don’t have but desperately want; about our longing to be anyone but ourselves.”
– The Boston Globe
“A stunning and unsettling foray into a glamorous world of celebrity writers, artistic loneliness, and individual desperation.”
– The Harvard Crimson
“Vernon Downs is a fast-moving and yet, at times, quite sad book about, in the broadest sense, longing.”
– The Brooklyn Rail
This electronic edition published in 2015 by Bloomsbury Reader
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First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Bloomsbury Reader
Copyright © 2015 Jaime Clarke
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