Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780374530181)

Cutty, One Rock takes the reader on a wild journey by airplane, bus, ferry, and foot from childhood to early manhood in the company of a New Jersey family in equal measures cultivated and deranged. We witness scenes of passionate, even violent intensity that give rise to meditations on eros and literature, the solitariness of travel, and the poetics of place.

These individual pieces, most of which first appeared in The London Review of Books and won an international cult following, are by turns poignant, surreal, down home and lyrical, a mixture of qualities that inheres in his language with uncommon delicacy and effect (Leonard Michaels). Together they make up an intellectual and emotional autobiography on the run. The book's final section, about Kleinzahler's adored, doomed older brother, is unforgettable, and since its appearance last year in the LRB, has already entered the literature as one of the most moving contemporary memoirs.

Author: August Kleinzahler
ISBN-10: 0374530181
ISBN-13: 9780374530181
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Language: English
Published: 12/13/2005
Pages: 210
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.54w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 02/19/2006 pg. 24