Shane Jones' story "I Will Unfold You With My Hairy Hands" appeared online in Hobart awhile back, when I was still a Hobart reader. He has a new book out called Light Boxes.
Goodreads description: Novel about a war waged by a group of balloonists against the month of February.
Here is his site: Light Boxes
Here are some of my thoughts on the book:
Light Boxes is a wonderful, strange little book. The book delights in
the landscape of childhood fantasies and literature; there are
balloons, kites, teacups, parchment letters, secret passages, and ghosts. With a palpable affection for these worlds, Shane Jones
also explores the human condition, leading his characters through a
cliffhanger that will keep you reading. This is the kind of book
that's best digested in one sitting. Jones has an intuitive feel for
mixing the everyday with the sublime. The personification of February,
the explorations of Utopia and our own sense of mortality, put me more
in mind of George MacDonald than Lewis Carroll. There is an archaic
sense of loneliness, and deep sympathy for humanity, in Jones' words. Striking, visceral, atmospheric, and absorbing.
-Claudia
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