false 3929408 2 "Dark… with clipped sentences and pungent passages, [<i>Waste</i>] concerns a janitor whose use of office workers’ waste and personal objects is queasy… a look at humanity from the slick insides of a wastebasket. --<b><i>Angle: a Journal of Arts + Culture</b></i> "Only Eugene Marten can keep a reader enthralled with the minutiae of a janitorial existence. From the most unlikely of subjects Marten constructs, with great care and taking joy in every sentence, a spellbinding work. Precisely and exquisitely detailed, Waste is a stark little masterpiece." -–<b>Brian Evenson</b> "There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction." -–<b>Sam Lipsyte</b> "When a poet pal had put a copy of Waste into my hands, I right away went nuts until I had gotten myself in touch with its author for to add to my household a supply of enough copies to scare all my writer friends with. Here, said I, in wild proclamation, is one for history and a half." -–<b>Gordon Lish</b> "This is surely one of the darkest and most jarring books I’ve read. It is also pitch-perfect. Waste wastes nothing–not a syllable, a beat, a ragged breath." -–<b>Dawn Raffel</b> 2614040 2 9 2008 Waste total:39|5:20|4:14|3:4|2:1|1:0| 39 170 73 12 4 2 false false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 21:15:11 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 20:19:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 9 false false Thu Jan 08 06:42:11 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 19:57:00 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Dec 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 19:17:34 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 19:20:31 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Aug 30 06:58:53 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 06:59:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Dec 09 12:27:12 -0800 2008 Sat Jun 20 16:33:03 -0700 2009
Eugene Marten's very short novel is about Sloper, a janitor. While merrily performing his janitorial tasks one evening, Sloper runs across something unusual in the dumpster, and...well, you probably have some idea where this is going, and it's rea...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 13:37:40 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 00:14:38 -0800 2009
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