"The Face Hole is at once a
testimony and a dossier, a metaphysical mystery of discarded anatomies, a
cavernous and patient document of Ballardian estrangement. Here Shipley's
writing enters a kind of austerity -- narrative stripped down to an elemental
level, filled with the detritus of everyday life, flecks of flesh and nuanced
glances, stray motives and oblique intentions, the most familiar of objects
quietly vanishing -- all of which induces in the reader a dread as vast as it
is subtle. A welcome addition to Shipley's ongoing experiments with the limits
of language and bodies."
- Eugene Thacker, author of In
The Dust Of This Planet
(forthcoming from Copeland Valley Press)
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