Описание: Rosson is a talent to be watched. - Jason Heller, NPR
A brilliantly haunting tale of forgiveness and redemption even in the face of abject failure . . . Depravity and grace meet in a powerful, profound, and lavish banquet for the soul. - Foreword Reviews (starred review)
Marvin Deitz has some serious problems. His mob-connected landlord is strong-arming him out of his storefront. His therapist has concerns about his stability. Hes compelled to volunteer at the local Childrens Hospital even though it breaks his heart every week.
Oh, and hes also the guilt-ridden reincarnation of Geoffroy Therage, the French executioner who lit Joan of Arcs pyre in 1431. Hes just seen a woman on a Los Angeles talk show claiming to be Joan, and absolution seems closer than its ever been . . . but how will he find her?
When Marvin heads to Los Angeles to locate the woman who may or may not be Joan, hes picked up hitchhiking by Mike Vale, a self-destructive alcoholic painter traveling to his ex-wifes funeral. As they move through a California landscape populated with smokes (ghostly apparitions thatve inexplicably begun appearing throughout the southwestern US), each seeks absolution in his own way.
In Smoke City, Keith Rosson continues to blur genre and literary fiction in a way that is in turns surprising, heartfelt, brutal, relentlessly inventive, and entirely his own.
