Trash
Sex Magic
the debut novel by Jennifer
Stevenson
June 15, 2004
trade paperback · 1931520127 · $16
hardcover
· 1931520062 · $26
ebook
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A
woman stood behind him -- no, no mere woman: a bombshell,
a vamp, a va-va-voom -- a gypsy queen, a menace from Venus.
- World rights available -- first
sale, to Tritonic in Romania.
- Review and Interview with Cynthia
Harrison at Garage
Band.
- An excerpt
from Trash Sex Magic
on Jennifer's site.
- Great story
in the Chicago papers: "Finding wonder in 'Trash' -- Inspired
by powers of sex and nature, Evanston author weaves surreal story."
- An interview
Raedawn Somershoe lives in a trailer
on the banks of the Fox River. She likes men and men like her. It
runs in the family: her mother, Gelia, can seduce a man just by walking
across a road. When they set their sights on a man, something magical
happens.
Alexander Caebeau drives a bucketloader for a construction company.
He's lonely, homesick, tired of cutting down trees and putting up
ugly buildings. He dreams of going back to the Bahamas, but when Alexander
meets Raedawn Somershoe, something magical happens.
Raedawn has just lost her lover. Her mother is keeping secrets from
her. Her childhood sweetheart has come home and is looking for answers.
Riverfront developers want Rae and her family gone. She may just be
falling in love with Alexander Caebeau. And the Fox River is beginning
to rise. . . . Something magical is about to happen.
Reviews:
"Engaging ... deeply charming,
and its best scenes lodge in the reader's memory."
-- Washington
Post
"It's not often you get
characters like those that appear in Jennifer Stevenson's Trash
Sex Magic. Even if you remove the oddities like the underground
huts and the tree fucking, Stevenson presents men and women who
feel entirely new to literature, and they're so good you have to
wonder why they've been missing.... It's
so refreshing to read a fantasy book that doesn't read like it bows
down to Tolkien, a book with a message that doesn't sound preachy.
Trash Sex Magic is Stevenson's first novel, and it will be
exciting to see what she comes up with next."
-- Bookslut
"Jennifer Stevenson's raunchy,
funny, and disturbing first novel, Trash Sex Magic, is full
of bewitching weirdness."
-- Chicago Reader
"Wonderful.... Trash
Sex Magic can sweep you up and leave up dazzled, miles from
home."
-- Locus
"Stevenson's first novel
is at once sexy, beautifully written and passing strange."
-- Publishers Weekly
"Jennifer Stevenson's sparkling
wit comes through in wordplay and metaphor, and her insight and
unwavering attention to detail creates a prose as marvelous as the
plot while celebrating Gaia and the passionate and transcendental
energy of Eros, and it does so with a profound honesty. Imagine
Anne Rice with a sense of humor, or a Christopher Moore novel re-written
by Anais Nin. If you are looking for a multi-layered treatise on
Goddess archetypes, if you're looking for a fantasy that isn't quite
dark, isn't quite urban, or if you're just looking for a funny,
well-written trashy novel, this book is definately for you. Surreal,
and full of delightful weirdness, this has quickly become my most-recommended
book of the year."
-- Green
Man Review
Advance Quotes:
This just absolutely
rocks. It's lyrical, it's weird and it's sexy in a very funky way.
Trash Sex Magic is full of people you would maybe be afraid
to meet in real life, but once you've met them fictionally you are
damn sorry you can't at least have a beer with them.
-- Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
It's to Chicago
what The Mysteries of Pittsburgh is to Pittsburgh and A
Winter's Tale is to New York -- a winning, touching, open-eyed
love letter -- but with trash, sex, and magic too. Unusual and wonderfully
done.
-- John Crowley, The Translator
It was a proverb
of the 16th Century: On Hallowmass Eve troll notte thy broomstick
bye ye caravan park, for thou wottist notte who maye mount thereon.
I had paid it little heed since learning it years ago, and planned
to read this grand book one chapter at a time. I'd scarcely begun
the second when I fell under the author's spell.
-- Gene Wolfe, The Knight
Ambitious, phantasmagorical,
with images that burn into your brain and stay there, even when
the book is off in a corner somewhere minding its own business.
-- Ellen Kushner, Thomas the Rhymer
Jennifer Stevenson
is my goddess. In this book, trash is power. Trash Sex Magic
is a springtime bacchanalia of beautiful, wild women, magic trees
and sexy men -- love it!
-- Nalo Hopkinson, The Salt Roads
Appearances
About
the Author:
Jennifer
Stevenson lives in the Chicago area with her husband of thirty
years. Her stories have been published in a number of anthologies.
"Solstice" was published as a chapbook by Green Man Review.
Trash Sex Magic is Jennifer Stevenson's first novel. She
is currently working on The SeX Files, a series of sexy, funny fantasies
for Ballantine Books, beginning with The Brass Bed.
Author photo by Beth Gwinn.
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