Crossings

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Product Details

Price
$27.99  $26.03
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Publish Date
Pages
384
Dimensions
6.6 X 9.4 X 1.3 inches | 1.3 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781250259042

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About the Author

ALEX LANDRAGIN is a French-Armenian-Australian writer. Currently based in Melbourne, Australia, he has also resided in Paris, Marseille, Los Angeles, New Orleans and Charlottesville. He has previously worked as a librarian, an indigenous community worker and an author of Lonely Planet travel guides in Australia, Europe and Africa. Alex holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne and occasionally performs early jazz piano under the moniker Tenderloin Stomp. Crossings is his debut novel.

Reviews

An exquisite novel. My initial melancholy rage at not having written it myself swiftly transformed into blissful gratitude that it exists at all, and that I am lucky enough to read it. Sure to be one of the biggest literary events of the year.
--Sam J. Miller, Nebula Award Winning author of Blackfish City

This delightful puzzle box of a novel is full of clever structural tricks that echo works by Nabokov and Cortazar, but Crossings goes beyond postmodern gamesmanship and finds real heart and soul in its compelling characters and old-fashioned
storytelling ethos. Alex Landrigan has given us a deeply satisfying read!
--Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will

Crossings is at once a romance, a puzzle box, and a supernatural mystery that spans not only the globe but also the centuries. Landragin has crafted a richly imaginative novel sure to appeal to fans of Cloud Atlas and Possession.
--Tom Sweterlitsch, award-winning author of The Gone World

"Crossings is playful, obsessive, romantic, intelligent, and wholly absorbing, with fascinations enough for a whole shelf of novels. I followed its alternate sequence rather than its conventional one, and reading it I had the unusual--for me maybe even unprecedented--sense, no matter where I was in the page count, that I was always occupying its exact center. Like its characters, I was never sure how close I was to the beginning of the story, how close to the end, which gave it an aura of inexhaustibility. It's a book that feels not endless but endlessly replenishable.
--Kevin Brockmeier, New York Times Bestselling author

"Alex Landragin works a vast magician's kit of erudite invention and heart in this enchanting debut. Crossings is a novel to savor and re-read.
-Wells Tower, author of Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned