Opaquely A

by Curtis Eggleston

To know each other intimately is to know God. A prodigy’s suicide brings hyper-visible and ultra-talented netizens together under mysterious auspices, the leading lights of the future earthly ordained to meet and usher in a brave new era. A woman is preyed on by a druggist, awaiting her grandmother’s demise to collect her inheritance. A physically deformed miracle of birth meteorically rises to superstar status.

Curtis Eggleston’s apotheosis is populated with unlikely prophets, demigods, archons, personifications of ruthless nature with enigmatic designs. With language that breathes and bends light, it’s hunting season for the spirit. Spanning lifetimes and continents with a worldly bravado, preoccupied with synchronicity, numerology, the ways virtuality alienates and connects and shatters us into our destinies, Opaquely A is a true epic novel in a classic sense written in a style that is entirely undiscovered yet charged with an ancient tenor.

Opaquely A says begin, daily user. It innovates at the edge of utterance, vibrates at a visceral frequency. Curtis Eggleston is a lightning rod for the noumenon. The challenge for stories to be expressed with maximum sensation bodies you in that Opaquely A acts on the body. It’s the essence of warmth for a cold generation that runs hot. It is a warning without judgment for a humanity too far gone to be bothered by beauty. It shines generating dimensions. It single-handedly keeps literary fiction relevant for at least a decade, leaping ahead with the momentum of a patient monastic who knows the battle is already won. Every page is suffused with mana, each one may be framed in gold. No one who reads Opaquely A will ever read or write the same again.

456 pages, Unknown Binding

Published November 1, 2024

Reviews

[Diane · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow

[Gab Ferreira · Rating 5 out of 5]

beautiful and chaotic and gorey and sexy, I love this book in every way, as soon as I finished I wanted to open the first page again and reread it immediately.
It’s not often you read something so current talking about modern times with the freshness that Opaquely A has. Golden Bear and Genesis chapter probably some of my favorite writing. GOAT.

[Jasper Harvey · Rating 5 out of 5]

"The will to live erases all benevolence and fear."
a very unique reading experience. i love curtis eggleston's style, it's more polished here than in Hollow Nacelle. his manipulation of form to evoke such visceral feelings is really something. some sentences can go on for pages, some chapters can span nearly hundreds of pages. as the novel goes on and different strands of the narrative come together, it'll have you flipping back through chapters and piecing everything together like you've gone mad. Opaquely A is beautifully surreal and funny-one of the only contemporary books i've read captures the absurdity and alienation of the digital age.

[Valentine · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was gonna write something long and detailed but to be honest i started reading this last year and didn't read for a while, then i picked it up again recently and read the second half in like 3 days. english is not my first language and the way this is written is insane at times. i was wondering where it was all going at the beginning, but the second half made sense of it all in an unexpected way. i'll need to reread it now that i've finished it once. i loved the characters of salem and golden bear. i suck at reviews, maybe i'll rewrite this some time.

[Brayden Kirkman · Rating 5 out of 5]

450 pages that pay off in spades.

A firm contemporary dexterity that shows what a modern novel should be, culturally attuned while remaining grounded and committed to the certain tranquility that spans all time and is universal and human - somber, zen, total spiritual release.

Worth the time and money — 5 stars, not one bad thing to say about it.

This rating will only drop if he comes out with the next one.

[drew · Rating 5 out of 5]

every chapter is something special. in a world with too many good books to read and not enough time, i’m still going to reread it immediately

[Kelby Losack · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thoughts and conversation with the author on the latest Agitaor: https://www.patreon.com/posts/1352599...

[Astro Kröner · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this in one setting and will revisit again soon.

[adri · Rating 5 out of 5]

Curtis you’re insane for this and I truly can’t thank you enough

[Malachi Buggs · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best book I've read since Septology and, before that, I couldn't say.