Lim peels relentlessly at his story’s realism until it tugs loose, revealing much stranger happenings underneath… a disturbing mystery pitched somewhere between Mulholland Drive and City of Glass... [I]t never loses its appealing initial tone of aching loneliness, even as its characters and its goings-on grow increasingly supernatural.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Eugene Lim's Fog & Car reviewed in The Review of Contemporary Fiction
Monday, June 1, 2009
Fog & Car reviewed on NewPages
How Lim manages to negotiate the reversals, to maintain believability, to take the reader with him, is only part of his success, for it is, ironically, the story’s lack of resolution that brings satisfaction… It balances, albeit in a detached tone, compassionate depictions of moral dissolution with Murakami-styled fabulist plot departures, dramatic reversals, and coincidental connections. It leaves the reader with a balled up jumble of narrative threads, but in such a sophisticated and befuddling manner as to force Murakami’s own mind into a tailspin. Fog & Car is an extraordinary debut.Read more at: http://www.newpages.com/bookreviews/2009_06/june2009_book_reviews.htm
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Blake Butler reviews Fog & Car
Last night I sat down to start reading Eugene Lim's FOG & CAR, the other of the two debut books from Ellipsis Press along with Eugene Marten's WASTE, which I loved and talked about a while back, I hadn't meant to read for very long but found myself unable to stop reading the book. FOG & CAR is a strange amalgam of several ideas, it begins with a dissolved marriage from which both ends begin to branch and splinter and spread back into each other in weird ways. I was surprised to be so captivated by a book about a ruined marriage, which it is only on the surface, what it really is is a puzzle and a book of worming forms, sometimes the tense shifts or lines are layered and/or repeated, there is a lot of subtle innovation, refreshing....More at: http://blakebutler.blogspot.com/2008/10/eugene-lims-fog-car-boinking-in-baby.html
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Come help us celebrate the launch of Waste and Fog & Car
Come help us celebrate the launch of Waste and Fog & Car on
Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 7:30PM at Freebird Books
on 123 Columbia Street in Brooklyn. Directions here.
Fog & Car reviewed on Bookslut
Erin McKnight writes, "In this debut novel documenting the aftermath of a shattered marriage—its disintegration evident in the artifacts of memory and loss strewn across an abandoned landscape—Eugene Lim doesn’t as much collect and catalogue the fragments of lives shared, as artfully piece them into a puzzle reflective of players whose moves were induced by seemingly inconsequent forces… [A] phenomenal ability to nestle revelatory gems in the corners of his muscular text." More at: http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2008_10_013525.php
Ellipsis Press announces new books from Marten and Lim!
Praise for Eugene Marten's Waste
"Dark and difficult, with clipped sentences and pungent passages, [Waste] concerns a janitor whose use of office workers' waste and personal objects is queasy…. a look at humanity from the slick insides of a wastebasket."
Angle: a Journal of Arts + Culture
"Only Eugene Marten can keep a reader enthralled with the minutiae of a janitorial existence. From the most unlikely of subjects Marten constructs, with great care and taking joy in every sentence, a spellbinding work. Precisely and exquisitely detailed, Waste is a stark little masterpiece."
–Brian Evenson
"There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten's prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction."
–Sam Lipsyte
"When a poet pal had put a copy of Waste into my hands, I right away went nuts until I had gotten myself in touch with its author for to add to my household a supply of enough copies to scare all my writer friends with. Here, said I, in wild proclamation, is one for history and a half."
–Gordon Lish
"This is surely one of the darkest and most jarring books I've read. It is also pitch-perfect. Waste wastes nothing–not a syllable, a beat, a ragged breath."
–Dawn Raffel
Purchase from Ellipsis Press or buy through SPD, Powell's, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble.
Praise for Eugene Lim's Fog & Car
"In this astonishing, assured first novel Eugene Lim intertwines elegant poetics with a fantastic plot, rife with love, mystery, malaise, and the supernatural. His gift for ingenious, startling permutations of language and plot make for a memorable, mesmerizing read. It was hard for me to put Fog and Car down; harder for me to stop thinking about."—Lynn Crawford
"The events of this novel take place in a space contrary to action, illuminating the silences of the page and the nothing that haunts the borders of "doing something." A beautifully paced and thoughtful work."
—Renee Gladman
"In Fog & Car Eugene Lim scalpels deep into the loneliness of coupledom, into divorce, into obsession and stalking, into casual hookups, into homoerotic shocks. The book slowly heats its duos until they come to a rolling boil, blistering out surprises and unexpected complexities. Mr. Lim is definitely a writer to watch."
—Steve Katz
"In Fog & Car, Eugene Lim renders the uncanny convergences of the lives of partners and strangers in a language entirely new. This is a deep, engulfing novel of breathtaking, even spooking precision—an altogether heady and heart-shaking debut."
—Gary Lutz
Purchase from Ellipsis Press or buy through SPD, Powell's, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble.
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