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Robert Walker
Fiction. ROBERT WALKER is homeless. He awakes one morning in his box to find half his face paralyzed. In anguish, he walks to mimic normality. He also walks because walking for him is life. Eventually, in opposition to his dedication to desired anonymity, he is forced to rejoin the world. The novel follows two crucial days in his journey while he traverses Memphis, encountering the familiar, the foreign, the desolate, and the joyous.
236 pages, Paperback
Published October 30, 2016
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Corey Mesler
85 books282 followersCOREY MESLER has published in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Esquire/Narrative4 Project and Good Poems, American Places (Viking Press, 2011). He has published 9 novels, Talk: A Novel in Dialogue (2002), We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon (2006), The Ballad of the Two Tom Mores (2010), Following Richard Brautigan (2010), Gardner Remembers (2011), Frank Comma and the Time-Slip (2012), Diddy-Wah-Diddy: A Beale Street Suite (2013), Memphis Movie (2015), Robert Walker (2016); 5 full length poetry collections, Some Identity Problems (2008), Before the Great Troubling (2011), Our Locust Years (2013), The Catastrophe of my Personality (2014), The Sky Needs More Work (2014); and 4 books of short stories, Listen: 29 Short Conversations (2009), Notes toward the Story and Other Stories (2011), I’ll Give You Something to Cry About (2011), and As a Child (2015). He has also published over a dozen chapbooks of both poetry and prose. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize numerous times, and two of his poems have been chosen for Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. His fiction has received praise from John Grisham, Robert Olen Butler, Lee Smith, Frederick Barthelme, Ann Beattie, Peter Coyote, Steve Yarbrough, Greil Marcus, among others. With his wife, he runs Burke’s Book Store in Memphis TN, one of the country’s oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. He can be found at www.coreymesler.wordpress.com.
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August 22, 2016
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Plugs for Robert Walker
“In Robert Walker, Corey Mesler has created a protagonist who pulls us into his world and forces us to see the world as he experiences it. Lucky for readers that this world is made perfect by its flaws. A vivid portrait of Memphis and the people who we often choose not to see."
--Courtney Miller Santo, author of Three Story House and The Roots of the Olive Tree
"Robert Walker, the main character of Corey Mesler's book of the same name is a man adrift in Memphis. Walker is homeless and he moves through the city connecting with both his own past and the city’s needy and vulnerable. Readers will find something gentle, wise and moving in these pages.”
--Darcey Steinke, author of Sister Golden Hair and Suicide Blonde
“In Corey Mesler’s Robert Walker, our senses are stretched taut in this immersive ride into the underworld of the homeless and the lost.”
--Morowa Yejidé, Author of Time of the Locust
"Richly imagined, intense and vivid, Corey Mesler's Robert Walker will take you down some byways you haven't trod before. Mesler writes with rare energy in this well-told tale. A memorable novel."
--Steve Yarbrough, author of Visible Spirits and The Realm of Last Chances
“I read Corey's new novel ROBERT WALKER in one sitting yesterday because every time I put it to one side to do something else I found myself picking it back up again just to read a little bit more. I want to talk about it to lots of people, especially people who knew Jerry Hoffman, Dancing Jimmy and a few other Memphis luminaries vaguely or specifically referenced in it.”
--Chris Ellis, star of The Devil’s Rejects and The Dark Knight Rises
Plugs for Robert Walker
“In Robert Walker, Corey Mesler has created a protagonist who pulls us into his world and forces us to see the world as he experiences it. Lucky for readers that this world is made perfect by its flaws. A vivid portrait of Memphis and the people who we often choose not to see."
--Courtney Miller Santo, author of Three Story House and The Roots of the Olive Tree
"Robert Walker, the main character of Corey Mesler's book of the same name is a man adrift in Memphis. Walker is homeless and he moves through the city connecting with both his own past and the city’s needy and vulnerable. Readers will find something gentle, wise and moving in these pages.”
--Darcey Steinke, author of Sister Golden Hair and Suicide Blonde
“In Corey Mesler’s Robert Walker, our senses are stretched taut in this immersive ride into the underworld of the homeless and the lost.”
--Morowa Yejidé, Author of Time of the Locust
"Richly imagined, intense and vivid, Corey Mesler's Robert Walker will take you down some byways you haven't trod before. Mesler writes with rare energy in this well-told tale. A memorable novel."
--Steve Yarbrough, author of Visible Spirits and The Realm of Last Chances
“I read Corey's new novel ROBERT WALKER in one sitting yesterday because every time I put it to one side to do something else I found myself picking it back up again just to read a little bit more. I want to talk about it to lots of people, especially people who knew Jerry Hoffman, Dancing Jimmy and a few other Memphis luminaries vaguely or specifically referenced in it.”
--Chris Ellis, star of The Devil’s Rejects and The Dark Knight Rises
August 22, 2016
Plugs for Robert Walker
“In Robert Walker, Corey Mesler has created a protagonist who pulls us into his world and forces us to see the world as he experiences it. Lucky for readers that this world is made perfect by its flaws. A vivid portrait of Memphis and the people who we often choose not to see."
--Courtney Miller Santo, author of Three Story House and The Roots of the Olive Tree
"Robert Walker, the main character of Corey Mesler's book of the same name is a man adrift in Memphis. Walker is homeless and he moves through the city connecting with both his own past and the city’s needy and vulnerable. Readers will find something gentle, wise and moving in these pages.”
--Darcey Steinke, author of Sister Golden Hair and Suicide Blonde
“In Corey Mesler’s Robert Walker, our senses are stretched taut in this immersive ride into the underworld of the homeless and the lost.”
--Morowa Yejidé, Author of Time of the Locust
"Richly imagined, intense and vivid, Corey Mesler's Robert Walker will take you down some byways you haven't trod before. Mesler writes with rare energy in this well-told tale. A memorable novel."
--Steve Yarbrough, author of Visible Spirits and The Realm of Last Chances
“I read Corey's new novel ROBERT WALKER in one sitting yesterday because every time I put it to one side to do something else I found myself picking it back up again just to read a little bit more. I want to talk about it to lots of people, especially people who knew Jerry Hoffman, Dancing Jimmy and a few other Memphis luminaries vaguely or specifically referenced in it.”
--Chris Ellis, star of The Devil’s Rejects and The Dark Knight Rises
“In Robert Walker, Corey Mesler has created a protagonist who pulls us into his world and forces us to see the world as he experiences it. Lucky for readers that this world is made perfect by its flaws. A vivid portrait of Memphis and the people who we often choose not to see."
--Courtney Miller Santo, author of Three Story House and The Roots of the Olive Tree
"Robert Walker, the main character of Corey Mesler's book of the same name is a man adrift in Memphis. Walker is homeless and he moves through the city connecting with both his own past and the city’s needy and vulnerable. Readers will find something gentle, wise and moving in these pages.”
--Darcey Steinke, author of Sister Golden Hair and Suicide Blonde
“In Corey Mesler’s Robert Walker, our senses are stretched taut in this immersive ride into the underworld of the homeless and the lost.”
--Morowa Yejidé, Author of Time of the Locust
"Richly imagined, intense and vivid, Corey Mesler's Robert Walker will take you down some byways you haven't trod before. Mesler writes with rare energy in this well-told tale. A memorable novel."
--Steve Yarbrough, author of Visible Spirits and The Realm of Last Chances
“I read Corey's new novel ROBERT WALKER in one sitting yesterday because every time I put it to one side to do something else I found myself picking it back up again just to read a little bit more. I want to talk about it to lots of people, especially people who knew Jerry Hoffman, Dancing Jimmy and a few other Memphis luminaries vaguely or specifically referenced in it.”
--Chris Ellis, star of The Devil’s Rejects and The Dark Knight Rises
August 6, 2016
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Plugs for Robert Walker
“In Robert Walker, Corey Mesler has created a protagonist who pulls us into his world and forces us to see the world as he experiences it. Lucky for readers that this world is made perfect by its flaws. A vivid portrait of Memphis and the people who we often choose not to see."
--Courtney Miller Santo, author of Three Story House and The Roots of the Olive Tree
"Robert Walker, the main character of Corey Mesler's book of the same name is a man adrift in Memphis. Walker is homeless and he moves through the city connecting with both his own past and the city’s needy and vulnerable. Readers will find something gentle, wise and moving in these pages.”
--Darcey Steinke, author of Sister Golden Hair and Suicide Blonde
“In Corey Mesler’s Robert Walker, our senses are stretched taut in this immersive ride into the underworld of the homeless and the lost.”
--Morowa Yejidé, Author of Time of the Locust
"Richly imagined, intense and vivid, Corey Mesler's Robert Walker will take you down some byways you haven't trod before. Mesler writes with rare energy in this well-told tale. A memorable novel."
--Steve Yarbrough, author of Visible Spirits and The Realm of Last Chances
Plugs for Robert Walker
“In Robert Walker, Corey Mesler has created a protagonist who pulls us into his world and forces us to see the world as he experiences it. Lucky for readers that this world is made perfect by its flaws. A vivid portrait of Memphis and the people who we often choose not to see."
--Courtney Miller Santo, author of Three Story House and The Roots of the Olive Tree
"Robert Walker, the main character of Corey Mesler's book of the same name is a man adrift in Memphis. Walker is homeless and he moves through the city connecting with both his own past and the city’s needy and vulnerable. Readers will find something gentle, wise and moving in these pages.”
--Darcey Steinke, author of Sister Golden Hair and Suicide Blonde
“In Corey Mesler’s Robert Walker, our senses are stretched taut in this immersive ride into the underworld of the homeless and the lost.”
--Morowa Yejidé, Author of Time of the Locust
"Richly imagined, intense and vivid, Corey Mesler's Robert Walker will take you down some byways you haven't trod before. Mesler writes with rare energy in this well-told tale. A memorable novel."
--Steve Yarbrough, author of Visible Spirits and The Realm of Last Chances
August 5, 2016
Plugs for Robert Walker
“In Robert Walker, Corey Mesler has created a protagonist who pulls us into his world and forces us to see the world as he experiences it. Lucky for readers that this world is made perfect by its flaws. A vivid portrait of Memphis and the people who we often choose not to see."
--Courtney Miller Santo, author of Three Story House and The Roots of the Olive Tree
"Robert Walker, the main character of Corey Mesler's book of the same name is a man adrift in Memphis. Walker is homeless and he moves through the city connecting with both his own past and the city’s needy and vulnerable. Readers will find something gentle, wise and moving in these pages.”
--Darcey Steinke, author of Sister Golden Hair and Suicide Blonde
“In Corey Mesler’s Robert Walker, our senses are stretched taut in this immersive ride into the underworld of the homeless and the lost.”
--Morowa Yejidé, Author of Time of the Locust
"Richly imagined, intense and vivid, Corey Mesler's Robert Walker will take you down some byways you haven't trod before. Mesler writes with rare energy in this well-told tale. A memorable novel."
--Steve Yarbrough, author of Visible Spirits and The Realm of Last Chances
“In Robert Walker, Corey Mesler has created a protagonist who pulls us into his world and forces us to see the world as he experiences it. Lucky for readers that this world is made perfect by its flaws. A vivid portrait of Memphis and the people who we often choose not to see."
--Courtney Miller Santo, author of Three Story House and The Roots of the Olive Tree
"Robert Walker, the main character of Corey Mesler's book of the same name is a man adrift in Memphis. Walker is homeless and he moves through the city connecting with both his own past and the city’s needy and vulnerable. Readers will find something gentle, wise and moving in these pages.”
--Darcey Steinke, author of Sister Golden Hair and Suicide Blonde
“In Corey Mesler’s Robert Walker, our senses are stretched taut in this immersive ride into the underworld of the homeless and the lost.”
--Morowa Yejidé, Author of Time of the Locust
"Richly imagined, intense and vivid, Corey Mesler's Robert Walker will take you down some byways you haven't trod before. Mesler writes with rare energy in this well-told tale. A memorable novel."
--Steve Yarbrough, author of Visible Spirits and The Realm of Last Chances
August 7, 2016
Review TK
August 30, 2016
offers insights into homelessness--its causes and its effects--and friendship--its causes and effects.
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