{"product_id":"daniel-fights-a-hurricane-isbn-9780143121190","title":"Daniel Fights a Hurricane","description":"\u003cp\u003eEver since he was a boy, Daniel Suppleton has been deathly afraid of hurricanes, which he fears will arrive suddenly and reduce everyone he knows and loves to trembling skeletons. Retreating to live in a tipi in the woods, Daniel battles demons real and imagined. As his ex-wife, Karen, frantically searches for him, the long-awaited hurricane finally hits, and Daniel must find a way to save them both. Haunting, mesmerizing, and beautifully written, \u003ci\u003eDaniel Fights a Hurricane\u003c\/i\u003e is an affecting, original novel of love and loss, marriage and friendship, by a rising young talent.\u003c\/p\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eDaniel Fights a Hurricane\u003c\/i\u003e] reads like if Franz Kafka and Anne Carson got together and re-wrote \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wizard of Oz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, with occasional in-text illustrations by Dave Eggers. . . . A surreal and playful postmodern fable about an epic struggle against a villainous force-of-nature, with a surprisingly human love story of intriguing complexity.”\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eW magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Filled with surreal, hallucinogenic imagery ranging from the terrifying to the hilarious.”\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Awl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A wild book full of brain-consuming storms and jacked-up teeth and mysterious tigers and breakfast at McDonald’s. While so many other books and movies these days seem to be afraid of their own fantasies, Shane Jones goes for the throat. Fans of his previous novel, \u003ci\u003eLight Boxes\u003c\/i\u003e, or who like Donald Antrim or Kelly Link or, I don’t know, Buñuel, can expect a black, fun freakshow.”\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A joy to read. . . . Gentle, quirky and ultimately redeeming. . . . A marvelous melding of metaphor and reality.”\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Shane Jones’ latest novel \u003ci\u003eDaniel Fights a Hurrican\u003c\/i\u003e magnetizes the eye to its watercolor collision course. It’s a lighthearted, good-natured tragedy powdered with bubbles, feathers, shaggy-haired rock gardens and folded kangaroos. It’s playful enough to hold court in the camp of anti-pretentiousness, yet so sad and demented that even the anthropomorphic ‘bears throwing acorns like grenades at squirrels’ add an air of menace.”\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—The Tottenville Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In Shane Jones’ surreal second novel, Daniel is a pipeline worker with a lifelong fear of hurricanes, who slips in and out of reality as he endeavors to fight the threat they pose to his town. Playful and dreamlike, the true, the imagined and the truly-imagined swirl together to create, yes, a hurricane of a world that will suck you in and offer little hope of escape.”\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Flavorpill\u003c\/b\u003e, “10 New Must Reads for July”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A bewitching new novel. . . . It’s Jones’s juxtaposition of the fantastical and, say, a woman polishing off a McDonald’s Sausage McMuffin that makes his work feel so unique.”\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Mallory Rice, \u003ci\u003eNYLON\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDaniel Fights a Hurricane\u003c\/i\u003e is a wry, beautiful, deeply felt book full of bewitching prose. Shane Jones is a serious player in the world of playfully serious fiction. Better start reading him now.”\u003cp\u003e—\u003cb\u003eSam Lipsyte\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eHome Land\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Ask\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Shane Jones takes the strands of dreams and reality and combines them so inextricably that it forms the DNA of an entirely new and wonderful species. \u003ci\u003eDaniel Fights a Hurricane\u003c\/i\u003e is an awe-inspiring novel, and I cannot imagine another author who could create this unique and heartbreaking object.”\u003cp\u003e—\u003cb\u003eKevin Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Family Fang\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A dream in the land of Brautigan written on the interior of a welding mask for proper pipemaking.”\u003cp\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJesse Ball\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Curfew\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSamedi the Deafness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A quietly deft and linguistically playful book about the struggle between so-called reality and the realities of the imagination. \u003ci\u003eDaniel Fights a Hurricane\u003c\/i\u003e is about the way realities cross, collide and twine around each other, and the lives that are wounded by being caught in between.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—\u003cb\u003eBrian Evenson\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eFugue State\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Shane Jones's \u003ci\u003eDaniel Fights a Hurricane\u003c\/i\u003e is a hypercolor kind of dream-machine. Images of McMuffins morph to underwater cities morph to dream salesmen to brutal weather that can destroy the world itself. In midst of such imagination is an even richer field of complex emotion, collaged from the more abstract and terrifying ways that line our days. Here is a work that invents its own fundamental image, logic, and function, and somehow makes it feel like our new electric human skin.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—\u003cb\u003eBlake Butler\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eScorch Atlas\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNothing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“We were completely blown away by Shane Jones’s 2010 debut novel \u003ci\u003eLight Boxes\u003c\/i\u003e, a surreal, fabulistic tale of a village revolting against its never-ending February, so we couldn’t be more excited for his sophomore novel, which he describes as ‘a novel of hallucinations.’ Sounds dreamy.”\u003cp\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFlavorpill\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, Most Anticipated Books of 2012\u003c\/p\u003eShane Jones (b. 1980) is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eLight Boxes\u003c\/i\u003e, which was named an NPR Best Book of 2010. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in numerous literary journals, including \u003ci\u003eLIT\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Tyrant\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFairy Tale Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eMilan Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in upstate New York.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301690396901,"sku":"NP9780143121190","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143121190.jpg?v=1767724472","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/daniel-fights-a-hurricane-isbn-9780143121190","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}