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Tin God
Author(s): Terese Svoboda (Author)
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- Publication Date: 1 Mar. 2006
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 182 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780803243316
- ISBN-13: 0803243316
Book Description
Celebrated by the “New York Times Book Review” for its ‘genuine grace and beauty’, Terese Svoboda’s work has been called ‘desperate, chilling, seductive’ (Vogue) and ‘haunting and profound’ (A. M. Homes), while Vanity Fair warned that it ‘detonates on contact’. In “Tin God”, her writing can only be called …divine. ‘This is God’, the novel begins, helpfully spelling G-O-D for the reader, and we are spinning on our way into the heart of a Midwest that spans spirits and centuries and forever redefines the middle of nowhere. Whispers plague a desperate conquistador lost in tall prairie grass. Four hundred years later, a male go-go dancer flings a bag of dope into the same field.God, in the person of a perm-giving, sheetcake-baking Nebraska farm woman, casts a jaundiced yet merciful eye over the unfolding chaos. Fire and a pair of judiciously applied pantyhose bring the two stories together. A contemplation of divinity and drugs on the ground, “Tin God” is a funny yet poignant story of the plains that transcends its interstate spine and exposes us to a whole new level of Svoboda’s fiery prose. Terese Svoboda, a native of Ogallala, Nebraska, is the author of eight books of prose and poetry, including “Trailer Girl and Other Stories”, “Cannibal”, and “Treason”. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in many publications, including “Harper’s”, “Paris Review”, and “The New Yorker”.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Tin God is a brutal and beautiful book about being lost in new worlds and old ones, too. Terese Svoboda has once again proven herself a writer of real power and mystery.”–Sam Lipsyte, author of Home Land “Tin God takes us on a wonderfully phantasmagoric and hilarious trip through the weird heart of the Midwest, a journey that passes across centuries and burrows into the unexplainable mysteries of what it means to be alive on this very strange planet. Terese Svoboda is a true American original: she writes with an angelic beauty and a devilish sense of humor.”–Dan Chaon, author of Among the Missing and You Remind Me of Me ” Narrated by none other than the Lord (“G-O-D” to you), this 2006 novel tells parallel stories that unroll centuries apart in a cornfield–one about lowlife druggies driving cars around a derelict landscape, the other about an encounter between travel-weary conquistadors and unlucky Indian children. A frozen moment encompassing the tragedy of American history. It’s strangely memorable and deliciously sad.”- The Week
About the Author
Terese Svoboda, a native of Ogallala, Nebraska, is the author of five volumes of poetry and four novels, including Bohemian Girl (Nebraska, 2011); a collection of short stories, Trailer Girl and Other Stories (Nebraska, 2009); a nonfiction book, Black Glasses Like Clark Kent: A GI&;s Secret from Postwar Japan, winner of the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize; and a New York Times Book Review Writer&;s Choice selection, Cleaned the Crocodile&;s Teeth, translated from the Nuer, the language of a South Sudanese people, many of whom have settled in Nebraska.
