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 Perfect
Circle
Sean
Stewart
June 15, 2004
trade paperback
1931520119 · $15
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Nebula
and World Fantasy Award finalist
A Book Sense Notable Book
A Locus
bestseller
Read it
now on Salon.com:
Chapter
One,
Two,
Three,
Four
Family
Reunion: an 8-page mini-comic by Sean Stewart and
Steve Lieber
based on Perfect
Circle.
Comes free with any order
or order it here for a buck.
T-shirts
and many things that are round.
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Interview in Locus
Interview in Bookselling
This Week
Interview in the Capital
Times
Reviews
* "All-around
terrific."
-- Booklist (starred review)
"Stewart's
quicksilver wit makes Perfect
Circle perfectly hilarious. And, a supremely skilled
storyteller, he saves the best for last."
-- Texas Monthly
"Stewart's
mastery of Will's first-person narration is unflinching
and unfaltering. The voice conjured here is absolutely authentic
and affecting."
-- Washington
Post
"Stewart's
compelling account of how DK comes to grips with his ghosts,
both actual and metaphorical, is alternately poignant and
hilarious, with some genuinely creepy moments and one or
two powerful jolts.... Compelling ... with strong potential
for crossing over into the mainstream."
-- Publishers Weekly
"By
turns heartbreaking and hilarious, Perfect Circle is
... an impressive example of an author using genre resources
to stake out a territory that, for the moment at least,
no one but he occupies.
-- Locus
"A
read-at-one-go novel.... Everything is both stated and understated,
elegant, full of the mundane horror and fear that inform
a normal, frustrated life.... And it is well, well worth
the reading. A highly recommended work."
-- F&SF
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Sean Stewart's
much-anticipated eighth novel is a dark, funny, fast-moving
thriller that you won't want to put down. Stewart was the
lead author behind the innovative interactive web game known
as "The Beast" (inspired by the film A.I.,)
which became a break-out cult hit. He is the winner of the
Arthur Ellis, Aurora, and World Fantasy awards, and the author
of The New York Times Notable Books Mockingbird
and Resurrection Man.
William "Dead"
Kennedy has problems. He's haunted by family, by dead people
with unfinished business, and by those perfect pop songs that
you can't get out of your head. He's a 32-year-old Texan still
in love with his ex-wife. He just lost his job at Pet-Co for
eating cat food. His air-conditioning is broken, there's no
good music on the radio, and he's been dreaming about ghost
roads.
When Will's
cousin ("My dad married your Aunt Dot's half-sister")
calls in the middle of the night about a dead girl haunting
his garage, it seems like an easy way to make a thousand dollars.
But nothing is ever that simple, especially when family is
involved. Will's mother is planning a family reunion of epic
proportions. Will's ex-wife is married to a former Marine.
His twelve-year-old daughter Megan thinks Will needs someone
to look after him. And recently his dead relatives seem to
want something from him.
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punk attitude: country &
western life
Perfect
Circle is a perfect read, exciting, unique, everything here
but the Second Coming, but, Sean Stewart himself is the prize. What
a talent. Write on, my man. Write on.
-- Joe Lansdale, Sunset and Sawdust
A heartwarmingly
sweet novel about what it's really like to be haunted. Sean Stewart's
best yet.
-- Sarah Smith, Chasing Shakespeares
Needy Ghosts,
bar fights, concealed weapons, R.E.M., and ramen noodles -- Perfect
Circle is an irreverent Texas treat. Sean Stewart is one bright,
funny writer.
-- Stewart O'Nan, The Night Country
Will Kennedy
has some troublesome relatives.Ê Especially the dead ones. Perfect
Circle is Sean Stewart at his spooky, funny, sad, and haunting
best.
-- Karen Joy Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club
Perfect Circle
is a ghost story for grown-ups, frightening, funny, and finally
redemptive. It kept me up way past my bedtime.
-- Harley Jane Kozak, Dating Dead Men
I read it all
in one gulp, by turns fearful and joyful for Stewart's likable loser
protagonist."
-- Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe
If Oprah read science fiction...This
quirky, engaging novel tells the story of William "Dead"
Kennedy, a thirtysomething former punk rocker and down-on-his-luck
divorced dad -- who sees ghosts. After a visit to his haunted cousin
goes horribly wrong, "DK" finds himself getting lots of
attention -- mostly the wrong kind - from both the living and the
dead. Funny and thought-provoking!
-- Carol Schneck Schuler
Books and Music, Okemos, MI
My favorites among Sean Stewart's
books are those that hover on the edge of our reality. His characters,
like William "Dead" Kennedy are much like my friends and relatives
-- although if any of my relatives are seeing ghosts, they haven't
mentioned this to me. Will leads a not-quite life in Texas, working
in dead end jobs, and yearning to reconnect with his ex-wife, and
trying to avoid ghosts. When a cousin calls with a ghost-busting
request, his financial offer is more than Will can resist. But accepting
the job opens Will up to a whole new level of darkness. Great prose
(Stewart has some of the best metaphors going) and a melancholy
mood, like music half-remembered.
-- Maryelizabeth Hart
of Mysterious Galaxy Bookshop,
San Diego, CA
About the Author:
Sean
Stewart is the author
of the I Love Bees and Beast
search operas, two short stories and the novels: Mockingbird,
The Night Watch, Nobody's
Son, Clouds
End, Passion
Play, and the New York Times Notable Books Resurrection
Man and Galveston.
With Jordan Weisman, he is the author of Cathy's
Book.
He wrote much of the innovative web
game associated with the film A.I. His novels have received
the Aurora, Arthur Ellis, Sunburst, Canadian Library, and World
Fantasy awards. He lives in Davis, CA, with his wife and two daughters.
- Older interviews: BookSense,
Locus,
Amazon,
Davis
Community Network, AC&S
- Novel excerpts: Mockingbird,
Galveston,
The
Night Watch, Clouds
End, & Resurrection
Man
- Camera
Obscura: a story written with Pat Cadigan, Kathleen Ann Goonan,
and Paul Witcover
- IMDB
listing
- is popular in Germany.
Author photo by Biko.
Download for print.
Cover
2004 Appearances:
2 June, Little
Gray Book Lecture Series, New York, NY
4-6 June, Book
Expo America, Chicago, IL
5 June, 3:30 PM -- "Salute
to Science Fiction, Mystery, & Thrillers"
6 June, 11:00 AM --
Small Beer Press table (SP4670)
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