Flannelwood by Raymond Luczak


Flannelwood
Title : Flannelwood
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ISBN : 1597098973
ISBN-10 : 9781597098977
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 200
Publication : First published June 6, 2019

Spontaneous combustion occurs when Bill, a forty-year-old barista and a failed poet, meets James, a disabled factory worker and a daddy hunk, at an OctoBear Dance. For six months they share weekends of incredible passion at James’s house up north in the country. Winter has never seemed hotter in their flannel sheets. But on the first day of spring James abruptly informs Bill over the phone that it’s not going to work out and hangs up. No further just the static of silence. Feeling haunted like Djuna Barnes while she wrote her novel Nightwood in the 1930s, Bill searches for answers in his recollections of James and others who’d departed too early from his life. When he does discover why James left, the answer comes from a mysterious stranger with secrets of his own.

Flannelwood Reviews

  • zxvasdf

    A poet lives in memory. A poet knows all we see is memory the instant light hits our retinas. Thus the poet self-immolates in remembrance, to become a whirling conflagration of moments; Flannelwood is a bardo in which we staccato through waves of pleasure and despair. Memories become palaces of exquisite agony, and we drift through its halls.

    This is what happens when a poet writes a novel. He doesn't just write words, he writes a river. As treacherous as it is gentle, the barrage of imagery is relentless until I feel like I am a ghost of a leaf, a lone a last a loved... we are all ghosts here.

    And we remember what we want to remember.

  • Charlotte

    This was a beautiful and melancholy book, The author has a remarkable writing style, it's more like poetry than prose. I was caught up in the thoughts of the MC and swept away in his memories. Beautiful.

  • Catty K

    "Open a page anywhere... and a ghost will slip out and haunt you without you quite comprehending why." For such a short book it packs a lot of imagery and poetry into its pages. This is not a quick linear story, it actively resists skimming. This is something to take in slowly and experience over several days or weeks.

  • Stefano

    A bit convoluted in the prose, but very good.