WINDOW EYES
Selected as one of PopMatters 2023 Best Books, WINDOW EYES is a must-read. Jennifer Vega wrote, "The depth and complexity of Philip Jason’s Window Eyes become fully apparent when we step back and think about the many stories he has folded into one, the laminated, exponential layers of storytelling created by his frame structure and secondary narrator. In the outermost layer of WINDOW EYES, we are reading a novel about a man telling us about his friend’s book. Go in one layer, and we are reading that re-telling. In still a third layer, the unnamed protagonist of Kellan’s book tells his golem the story of the hero Window Eyes, who has vanished and is being forever sought by Glassman, who loves her."
In the wake of a tragedy, eccentric comic book artist and writer Kellan Savoy created one final work and then disappeared. That work, a series about a man who tries to make a golem to replace his dead lover, is presented here for the first time: WINDOW EYES is a collection of annotated issue summaries summoned from the memories of the only person to read the work before it vanished with Kellan, Kellan's best friend Thomas Levi, who hopes that in sharing it, he might be able to shed some light on the mystery of its creation and disappearance.
Selected as one of PopMatters 2023 Best Books, WINDOW EYES is a must-read. Jennifer Vega wrote, "The depth and complexity of Philip Jason’s Window Eyes become fully apparent when we step back and think about the many stories he has folded into one, the laminated, exponential layers of storytelling created by his frame structure and secondary narrator. In the outermost layer of WINDOW EYES, we are reading a novel about a man telling us about his friend’s book. Go in one layer, and we are reading that re-telling. In still a third layer, the unnamed protagonist of Kellan’s book tells his golem the story of the hero Window Eyes, who has vanished and is being forever sought by Glassman, who loves her."
In the wake of a tragedy, eccentric comic book artist and writer Kellan Savoy created one final work and then disappeared. That work, a series about a man who tries to make a golem to replace his dead lover, is presented here for the first time: WINDOW EYES is a collection of annotated issue summaries summoned from the memories of the only person to read the work before it vanished with Kellan, Kellan's best friend Thomas Levi, who hopes that in sharing it, he might be able to shed some light on the mystery of its creation and disappearance.
Selected as one of PopMatters 2023 Best Books, WINDOW EYES is a must-read. Jennifer Vega wrote, "The depth and complexity of Philip Jason’s Window Eyes become fully apparent when we step back and think about the many stories he has folded into one, the laminated, exponential layers of storytelling created by his frame structure and secondary narrator. In the outermost layer of WINDOW EYES, we are reading a novel about a man telling us about his friend’s book. Go in one layer, and we are reading that re-telling. In still a third layer, the unnamed protagonist of Kellan’s book tells his golem the story of the hero Window Eyes, who has vanished and is being forever sought by Glassman, who loves her."
In the wake of a tragedy, eccentric comic book artist and writer Kellan Savoy created one final work and then disappeared. That work, a series about a man who tries to make a golem to replace his dead lover, is presented here for the first time: WINDOW EYES is a collection of annotated issue summaries summoned from the memories of the only person to read the work before it vanished with Kellan, Kellan's best friend Thomas Levi, who hopes that in sharing it, he might be able to shed some light on the mystery of its creation and disappearance.
About PHILIP JASON
Philip Jason’s stories can be found in magazines such as Prairie Schooner, The Pinch, Mid-American Review, Ninth Letter, and J Journal; his poetry in Spillway, Lake Effect, Canary and Summerset Review. He is a recipient of the Henfield Prize in Fiction. For more information, visit philipjason.com.
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Genre: Fiction (Experimental)
ISBN: 978-1956692648
Publication Date: May 10, 2023
