NEWS: Bridge Books Announces New Literary Fiction Title: Robert Kloss’s “The Genocide House”
NEWS
Bridge Books Announces New Literary Fiction Title: Robert Kloss’s The Genocide House
THE GENOCIDE HOUSE WILL BE RELEASED FALL/WINTER 2024 WITH EVENTS TO BE ANNOUNCED
Bridge Books, publisher of the Bridge Journal, a division of Bridge Art Nfp, the registered Illinois 501 (c) 3 not for profit organization that also publishes the weekly online Bridge magazine at bridge-chicago.org, today announces publication of its next literary fiction title, The Genocide House by Robert Kloss. Acquired for the press by Bridge Journal Fiction Section Editor Meghan Lamb, the novel will be released by Bridge Books in Fall 2024.
In The Genocide House—the American—maelstrom—The world—delirium—
Villages—slaughtered and burned—Cities eradicated—in atomic flame—
Young women lie—yearning—in valleys—incinerated—
Dying men—dream of war—murder—Their—dreams of blood pooling—Their dreams—of bodies—posed—erotic—
Visions of flame—Clouds atomic—rising and swallowing—cities—Television screens—winking and shimmering—visions of flame—clouds—atomic—
Aged women—their recollections—sweltering—
Young men—languid—vile—Licking—devouring—Their humid minds—shimmer with—war—murder—Dreams of blood—pooling—Their bodies—posed—erotic—
“The Genocide House, from its earliest iterations, was haunted by the spectre of Chicago – its history, its music, its clammoring restless air.” says author Robert Kloss. “So it is only fitting that Bridge, a Chicago based publisher, will now see its final form into the world.”
“Written as if a medieval period fiction, this work is ultimately an experimental work that wrenches language up against a written portrait of humanity gripped by dread and acting out of its worst, most vile, most fearful and darkest impulses,” explains Bridge Books publisher Michael Workman. “It slips into a state of demonological horror, infused into a sort of everyday, replacing dread in a near lipogrammatic way. I was in fact reminded of Georges Perec’s La Disparition (A Void); in much the same way as the letter “e” never makes in an appearance in that novel, here the darkness is never quite dispelled, there is no salvation, all that remains is the negative iridescence that is the despair of the human animal.”
About Robert Kloss
Robert Kloss is the author of four previous novels, including A LIGHT NO MORE and THE WOMAN WHO LIVED AMONGST THE CANNIBALS, both reprinted by Inside the Castle in 2022. He lives in Chicago with his wife, the writer and musician Meghan Lamb, and their cat, Daniel Day-Lewis.
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