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About the Book
*USA TODAY Bestseller * Alex Award Winner *
The “viciously clever, over-the-top, genre-skewing” (The New York Times Book Review) classic slasher story with a twist from Stephen Graham Jones, the master of modern horror and bestselling author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, The Only Good Indians, and the Indian Lake trilogy.
1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small town driven by oil and cotton—and a place where everyone knows everyone else’s business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill for revenge. Here Stephen Graham Jones explores the Texas he grew up in, and shared sense of unfairness of being on the outside through the slasher horror Jones loves, but from the perspective of the killer, Tolly, writing his own autobiography. Find yourself rooting for a killer in this “playful, self-aware, and remarkably gory horror novel” (The New York Times).
The “viciously clever, over-the-top, genre-skewing” (The New York Times Book Review) classic slasher story with a twist from Stephen Graham Jones, the master of modern horror and bestselling author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, The Only Good Indians, and the Indian Lake trilogy.
1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small town driven by oil and cotton—and a place where everyone knows everyone else’s business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill for revenge. Here Stephen Graham Jones explores the Texas he grew up in, and shared sense of unfairness of being on the outside through the slasher horror Jones loves, but from the perspective of the killer, Tolly, writing his own autobiography. Find yourself rooting for a killer in this “playful, self-aware, and remarkably gory horror novel” (The New York Times).
Appearances
NOV 4
6:30PM
In Person
Stephen Graham Jones
Boulder Public Library
1001 Arapahoe Ave
Boulder, CO 80302
About the Author
Gary Isaacs
Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians, My Heart Is a Chainsaw, I Was a Teenage Slasher, and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. He has been an NEA fellowship recipient and a recipient of several awards including the Ray Bradbury Prize from the Los Angeles Times, the Mark Twain America Voices Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, Nebula Award, the Jesse H. Jones Award for Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Independent Publisher Award for Multicultural Fiction, and the Alex Award from American Library Association. He is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.
About the Readers
Gary Isaacs
Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians, My Heart Is a Chainsaw, I Was a Teenage Slasher, and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. He has been an NEA fellowship recipient and a recipient of several awards including the Ray Bradbury Prize from the Los Angeles Times, the Mark Twain America Voices Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, Nebula Award, the Jesse H. Jones Award for Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Independent Publisher Award for Multicultural Fiction, and the Alex Award from American Library Association. He is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Product Details
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio (July 16, 2024)
- Runtime: 11 hours and 12 minutes
- ISBN13: 9781797175966
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Raves and Reviews
"Texas-born and raised, narrator Michael Crouch draws on his roots to bring the title character of this audiobook to life...There’s vomit and blood aplenty, but Crouch’s light touch leaves listeners remembering the love: for the small West Texas town Tolly can never return to and for his best friend, who tried to save Tolly from his fate. Unexpectedly sweet."
– AudioFile Magazine
Awards and Honors
- ALA Alex Award
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