Jacks: A Gothic Gospel

by Anne Stone

Part fictional memoir, part fairy-tale, jacks is the story of Hermeline, a young girl whose fabulated world is an interlacing of myths, rhymes, incantations and memories, a thousand and one tales beneath whose surface lies the violence of childhood, forever lost in the brilliance of fiction.Like a disturbing and recurring dream, jacks will plunge you into the terror of language and myth. a gothic gospel is the first novel by Montreal writer Anne Stone. It is a book sure to make a profound impression a powerful and moving novel unlike any other in Canadian literature, and one that you are not likely to forget. Critical Comment ...an odd and energetic experiment.... A brave, new book from a brave, new writer.... Books in Canada Experimental works [like] ... jacks challenge the reader to think about narrative as more than just story-telling. Montreal Review of Books

92 pages, Hardcover

First published November 16, 1998

About the author

Anne Stone teaches Creative Writing and Literature at Capilano University. Her latest novel, Girl Minus X (Fall 2020), tells the story of a girl with an eidetic memory and a traumatic past, navigating a world in which a slow creeping virus erodes memory. Publishers Weekly called the novel “a prismatic look at disaster striking people already in crisis. Stone’s brilliant, breathless novel will put readers in mind of Emily St. John Mandel and Margaret Atwood.” She’s also the author of the novels, Delible (2007), Hush (1999), and jacks (1998). Just now, she’s working on a book of speculative / slipstream / Weird short stories.