That's Not a Feeling

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Price
$15.95  $14.83
Publisher
Soho Press
Publish Date
Pages
368
Dimensions
5.57 X 8.21 X 0.97 inches | 0.72 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781616951887

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About the Author
Dan Josefson has received a Whiting Award, a Fulbright research grant and a Schaeffer Award from the International Institute of Modern Letters. He has an MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He lives in Brooklyn, and works at a book club for children's literature.
Reviews
WINNER OF THE 2015 WHITING AWARD FOR FICTION
New York Times Editors' Choice
Booklist Editors' Choice


"Dan Josefson is a writer of astounding promise and That's Not a Feeling is a bold, funny, mordant, and deeply intelligent debut."
--
David Foster Wallace
, author of Infinite Jest

"If That's Not a Feeling were a fifth novel, it would be a triumph. As a first novel, it is an astonishment. Dan Josefson sails along the scary edge of perfection in this book, and does so with style, empathy, compassion, humor, and wisdom."
--
Tom Bissell, author of The Father of All Things

"Deft, tempered prose...unornamented, but never flat or blunted, so that the characters, not the sentences, heat the pages."
--New York Times Book Review

"Quirkily brilliant."
--Los Angeles Review of Books

"The prose is matter-of-fact, even placid, and studded with perfectly phrased
gems, a cool surface to a work that is rich in feeling. A wonderful and noteworthy debut."
--Booklist, Starred Review

"Funny at times, and more than a little sad, the book's form perfectly mirrors Benjamin's profound sense of dislocation and uncertainty. This is a powerful, haunting look at the alternate universe of an unusual therapeutic community."
--Library Journal, Starred Review

"Metaphor is a hell of a weapon in Dan Josefson's debut That's Not a Feeling...a funny, humane, egalitarian, and gently challenging book, one to quote and roar over, and one that gets better and stranger as it goes."
--SF Weekly, "Instant Classic"

"This is a book of enormous intelligence, and even more heart."
--
Jim Shepard
, author of Like You'd Understand, Anyway

"An incredibly daring experiment in characterization, and one that will surely reward many rereadings."
--School Library Journal, "Adult Books for Teens"

"It's difficult to read this novel and not feel challenged, moved, devastated, and excited for Josefson's next book."
--Tottenville Review

"Not only is this novel a humorous narrative adventure, it's also deeply moving, subtle in its approach, and beautiful in its execution.... A vivid portrait of human frailty and perseverance, one that makes us question what breaks us, what heals us, and what makes that journey worth it."
--Tethered by Letters