Book

by Ken Sparling

Imagine there was just one thing you were trying to say, and you weren't even sure what it was you were trying to say exactly, you just felt you had something to say, so you kept trying to say what it was you were trying to say and hoping that one time you would say it in a way that would allow you to finally see just exactly what it was you'd been trying to say. Imagine that sometimes you managed to say what you were trying to say better than other times, and you collected the best examples of what you were trying to say and put them together in a book hoping that, by saying it a bunch of times in a bunch of different ways, you'd maybe get closer to seeing what you'd been trying to say.

Genres: Fiction, Canada

226 pages, Paperback

First published April 28, 2010

Reviews

[Michael Boyce · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is book is sublime. Every time I read anything by Ken Sparling I get excited about writing.

Book is an unusual book. At first you might think that there isn't anything holding it together as a book, like as a novel, but the more you read it, the more the sense of it as a total thing emerges, mysteriously, ineffably, but none-the-less as there.

Some of the sentences and paragraphs are so good I can barely contain myself when I read them. Brilliant.

[Laura]

"Most people won't tell you the truth of what they hear when they hear you. They won't tell you they have heard your secret. They are afraid. If they can hear your secret, you might be able to hear theirs. So the real secret we go around trying to keep from each other every day is that we hear each other's secrets every day."