Guillermo Stitch's Blog - Posts Tagged "lake-of-urine"
Cover art
Waiting for the cover art to come through has involved a little threshhold apprehension. I needn't have worried, and couldn't be happier with the result. Deep thanks to Royce M Becker and Sagging Meniscus.
New review
Deepest thanks to Krishan Coupland of Neon Books for a stunning review. A couple of snippets here and the full review linked below.
Take care, everybody.
“Exploring this world is an absolute delight. At every turn we encounter new depths of depravity, new heights of brilliance… and all of it is rendered in prose that is smart and squalid and layered enough to evoke – and perhaps even rival – James Joyce.”
“Lake of Urine is an anarchic, whip-smart ride through a world that mashes together the real and the impossible, the noble and the gaudy, the base and the divine. It is filmic, quick, dirty, and fuelled by an unstoppable energy from the first page to the last.”
https://www.neonbooks.org.uk/lake-of-...
Take care, everybody.
“Exploring this world is an absolute delight. At every turn we encounter new depths of depravity, new heights of brilliance… and all of it is rendered in prose that is smart and squalid and layered enough to evoke – and perhaps even rival – James Joyce.”
“Lake of Urine is an anarchic, whip-smart ride through a world that mashes together the real and the impossible, the noble and the gaudy, the base and the divine. It is filmic, quick, dirty, and fuelled by an unstoppable energy from the first page to the last.”
https://www.neonbooks.org.uk/lake-of-...
Love from Bizarroland
The book has been reviewed by bizarro maven Zé Burns and it is really quite moving to read.
"This is the type of book I adore: intelligent, whimsically hilarious, and unapologetically bizarre. It is everything I love about surrealism and bizarro put together in one masterpiece."
https://zeburns.com/2020/03/28/lake-o...
Deepest thanks.
"This is the type of book I adore: intelligent, whimsically hilarious, and unapologetically bizarre. It is everything I love about surrealism and bizarro put together in one masterpiece."
https://zeburns.com/2020/03/28/lake-o...
Deepest thanks.
Review in The Irish Times
The Irish Times have published a rather wonderful review of the book. Deepest thanks.
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/bo...
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/bo...
Review at Totally Dublin
"Guillermo Stitch’s Lake of Urine is a wild ride, which from the get-go sets out its terms and conditions: ‘If anybody tells you this story isn’t true they are lying. It is a true story; I am lying if it isn’t, and I don’t lie,’ reads its playful, meta-modernist opening gambit. Whatever our own normative intuitions as readers regarding what fiction should or shouldn’t be, it is hard, even after a few pages, not to surrender to Stitch’s unflinching audacity, which is everywhere on display."
Deepest thanks to Totally Dublin, who have published a wonderful review of Lake of Urine, at
https://www.totallydublin.ie/more/pri...
Deepest thanks to Totally Dublin, who have published a wonderful review of Lake of Urine, at
https://www.totallydublin.ie/more/pri...
Review at Books Ireland
A slightly baffled but apparently entertained Kevin Kiely reviews the book for Books Ireland. Deepest thanks.
https://bit.ly/3hjbpHm
https://bit.ly/3hjbpHm
More reviews
A few more very pleasing reviews are in, from
The Mantle
—"Brilliant tragicomedy...every character is an eccentric blend of caricature and nuance...takes the absurdist satire to its logical extreme."
https://www.themantle.com/literature/...
Arts Fuse
—"Like something out of a dream, familiar and unsettling, a convincing achievement on par with the recognizable nowhere-ness of Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman."
https://artsfuse.org/208061/book-revi...
and Maudlin House
—“I can’t decide whether this novel brings Voltaire or David Foster Wallace to mind, but I doubt either could do a better job of bantering about the savage human spirit than Stitch does here in 2020…. It’s dirty. It’s funny. It’s complex. It’s the kind of debut novel that most authors could only hope for. Guillermo Stitch is just the kind of writer that this year needs. Check out this book before the chaos ends.”
https://maudlinhouse.net/not-drowning...
Deepest thanks to all.
The Mantle
—"Brilliant tragicomedy...every character is an eccentric blend of caricature and nuance...takes the absurdist satire to its logical extreme."
https://www.themantle.com/literature/...
Arts Fuse
—"Like something out of a dream, familiar and unsettling, a convincing achievement on par with the recognizable nowhere-ness of Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman."
https://artsfuse.org/208061/book-revi...
and Maudlin House
—“I can’t decide whether this novel brings Voltaire or David Foster Wallace to mind, but I doubt either could do a better job of bantering about the savage human spirit than Stitch does here in 2020…. It’s dirty. It’s funny. It’s complex. It’s the kind of debut novel that most authors could only hope for. Guillermo Stitch is just the kind of writer that this year needs. Check out this book before the chaos ends.”
https://maudlinhouse.net/not-drowning...
Deepest thanks to all.
Reviews
I'm very grateful for the positive reviews of Lake of Urine, which are still coming in.
“Such a talent for world-building. An abundance of funny, bizarre, imaginative touches.”
Alastair Mabbott, Herald Scotland https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/1...
“What a deliciously bizarre book! Here is the type of novel that can be endlessly picked apart for its meanings…. a great addition to the modern literary universe.”
Electra Nanou, Book Breath https://bookbreath.blog/2020/09/24/re...
“[Stitch’s] writing is constantly surprising, and the fecundity of his language deserves all the accolades…. At bottom, amid the multifarious themes tackled in this novel, a few stand-outs are: Domestic violence, tenderness, and family trial. It is cheekily old fashioned and postmodern at the same time…. The author contemplates human relations with stark and unabashed honesty, sidelong, through the medium of parody, across a wide array of settings, all amply described, immersive, and brutally comic, the pages beset with gestures both lurid and poignant…. All around an impressive and entirely unique work of fiction.”
L.S.Popovich https://lspopovich.com/2020/09/27/rev...
“Such a talent for world-building. An abundance of funny, bizarre, imaginative touches.”
Alastair Mabbott, Herald Scotland https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/1...
“What a deliciously bizarre book! Here is the type of novel that can be endlessly picked apart for its meanings…. a great addition to the modern literary universe.”
Electra Nanou, Book Breath https://bookbreath.blog/2020/09/24/re...
“[Stitch’s] writing is constantly surprising, and the fecundity of his language deserves all the accolades…. At bottom, amid the multifarious themes tackled in this novel, a few stand-outs are: Domestic violence, tenderness, and family trial. It is cheekily old fashioned and postmodern at the same time…. The author contemplates human relations with stark and unabashed honesty, sidelong, through the medium of parody, across a wide array of settings, all amply described, immersive, and brutally comic, the pages beset with gestures both lurid and poignant…. All around an impressive and entirely unique work of fiction.”
L.S.Popovich https://lspopovich.com/2020/09/27/rev...
A TLS review!
Wonderful news and a wonderful review—Houman Barekat in the TLS.
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/la...
Deepest thanks
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/la...
Deepest thanks
