Jenny in Corona
Stuart Ross
(Author)
Description
Tyrone has a problem. Several problems, in fact: a girlfriend who sleeps around, a boss he's sleeping with, and various types of guilt (Catholic, Jewish, White) he can't live without. Plus, there's his deceased mother, his pill-popping father (who at least shares the good ones), the death metal guitarist who lives in his attic and shreds into the wee morning hours, and the coworker obsessed with the 200 movies Robert De Niro may or may not have filmed between 1974 and 1976. Follow Ty as he muddles through twentysomething life tangled up in Manhattan and Queens, good sex and bad drugs, and the relative merits of Antonioni and Superman II.
Product Details
Price
$16.99
$15.80
Publisher
Tortoise Books
Publish Date
September 10, 2019
Pages
222
Dimensions
5.5 X 8.5 X 0.51 inches | 0.64 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781948954068
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About the Author
Stuart Ross is a writer, editor, writing teacher, and small press activist living in Cobourg, Ontario. He is the award- winning author of twenty books of poetry, fiction, and essays, most recently MOTEL OF THE OPPOSABLE THUMBS (Anvil, 2019), Pockets (ECW Press, 2017), A Sparrow Came Down Resplendent (Wolsak and Wynn, 2016), and A Hamburger in a Gallery (DC Books, 2015). Stuart has taught workshops in elementary and high schools across the country and was the 2010 Writer-in-Residence at Queen's University. Visiting schools and working with students of all ages is his favourite part of his writing practice. Stuart is at work writing nearly a dozen different poetry, non-fiction, and fiction manuscripts.
Reviews
"Jenny in Corona is by turns hilarious and devastating and profound. Stuart Ross has one of the strangest minds I've ever encountered; I say this not as a warning but as an enthusiastic endorsement." -Rebecca Makkai, Pulitzer finalist for The Great Believers
"A beautiful, moving, and utterly strange novel." - Centered on Books
"There's something wonderful about the way Stuart Ross sees the world and the way he translates that over into this book filled with confused people in confusing times. Jenny in Corona takes the mundane and twists it into something that is funny, bittersweet, and undeniably brilliant. He's given us the modern bildungsroman that we need as much as we deserve." - Jason Diamond, author of Searching for John Hughes
"Stuart Ross is a natural, as very few novelists are. Jenny in Corona comes trippingly off the page, with a lightness of touch and wicked charm to spare. You can't not love his every deluded character-because he loves them so well himself. Alive inside forgotten time or some fugitive place, this is a tender farewell to the wreck of the 20th century. " - Miles Klee, author of Ivyland and True False
"Jenny in Corona is a remarkable New York City novel, a book as funny as it is moving." - Largehearted Boy
"This hilariously poignant novel from an indie press is seemingly flying under a lot of radars. It shouldn't be. Jenny in Corona is a must-read for those looking for something a little more peculiar than the typical recommendation. This is a career you'll want to follow." -Debutiful
"This saga about Ty, a beyond-alienated business consultant and artisanal builder of doomed relationships, feels written by Joshua Ferris's even more mischievous brother. Each and every sentence is wonderful, full of hairpin turns, city fresh details, and insight. 'Never forget that Americans invented cheerleading, ' Ty warns us. I'll not forget this book. Irreverent, scathingly funny, and emotionally piercing, Jenny in Corona is a resplendent debut." - Andy Mozina, author of Contrary Motion and Quality Snacks
"If you've ever doubted whether our contemporary discourse (much less predicament) could inspire truly stirring music, then Stuart Ross has a filibuster for you. Throughout Jenny in Corona, his prose evokes a dizzying assortment of past American masters of the sublimely vulgar, from Stanley Elkin to Joy Williams to Bret Easton Ellis to Ishmael Reed, all while carrying its own unmistakable tune with disarmingly perfect pitch. Call it the comic novel of now that we don't deserve - but with whose satiric insights we've been graced nevertheless." - Joe Milazzo, author of Crepuscule W/ Nellie
"A beautiful, moving, and utterly strange novel." - Centered on Books
"There's something wonderful about the way Stuart Ross sees the world and the way he translates that over into this book filled with confused people in confusing times. Jenny in Corona takes the mundane and twists it into something that is funny, bittersweet, and undeniably brilliant. He's given us the modern bildungsroman that we need as much as we deserve." - Jason Diamond, author of Searching for John Hughes
"Stuart Ross is a natural, as very few novelists are. Jenny in Corona comes trippingly off the page, with a lightness of touch and wicked charm to spare. You can't not love his every deluded character-because he loves them so well himself. Alive inside forgotten time or some fugitive place, this is a tender farewell to the wreck of the 20th century. " - Miles Klee, author of Ivyland and True False
"Jenny in Corona is a remarkable New York City novel, a book as funny as it is moving." - Largehearted Boy
"This hilariously poignant novel from an indie press is seemingly flying under a lot of radars. It shouldn't be. Jenny in Corona is a must-read for those looking for something a little more peculiar than the typical recommendation. This is a career you'll want to follow." -Debutiful
"This saga about Ty, a beyond-alienated business consultant and artisanal builder of doomed relationships, feels written by Joshua Ferris's even more mischievous brother. Each and every sentence is wonderful, full of hairpin turns, city fresh details, and insight. 'Never forget that Americans invented cheerleading, ' Ty warns us. I'll not forget this book. Irreverent, scathingly funny, and emotionally piercing, Jenny in Corona is a resplendent debut." - Andy Mozina, author of Contrary Motion and Quality Snacks
"If you've ever doubted whether our contemporary discourse (much less predicament) could inspire truly stirring music, then Stuart Ross has a filibuster for you. Throughout Jenny in Corona, his prose evokes a dizzying assortment of past American masters of the sublimely vulgar, from Stanley Elkin to Joy Williams to Bret Easton Ellis to Ishmael Reed, all while carrying its own unmistakable tune with disarmingly perfect pitch. Call it the comic novel of now that we don't deserve - but with whose satiric insights we've been graced nevertheless." - Joe Milazzo, author of Crepuscule W/ Nellie
