The Great Bravura by Jill Dearman
The Great Bravura by Jill Dearman, graduate, MFA in Creative Writing program at The New School.
She Writes Press, 2015
From the publisher:
“Brutal and magical and sexy as all hell. Dearman’s noir voice shatters boundaries I never knew existed.”—Augusten Burroughs, New York Times best-selling author of Running With Scissors, Dry, and Magical Thinking
“A rich, noirish picture of olde New York with a punk sensibility that rocks the senses. Dearman’s characters are twisted, doomed, and filled with a lust for life.”
—Roberta Bayley, editor of Punk Magazine and author of Punk, Patti Smith, and Blank Generation Revisited
“Sapphically ardent, meta-absurd, and Nin-sexy all at once, Jill Dearman’s tale is a triumph of mysterious pleasures. Think of it as a Colette martini with a drop of Robbe-Grillet vermouth and a Jeanette Winterson olive.”
—Michael Atkinson, Village Voice and Movieline film critic, author of Hemingway Deadlights