Torpor: Collected Fiction, 1960-1987, Volume 2

Torpor

Collected Fiction, 1960-1987, Volume 2

by J. Michael Yates

$12.95

• 1989
• ISBN 978-0-921870-00-5 (0-921870-00-0)
• 5-1/2″ x 8-1/2″ Trade Paperback, 146 pages
• Fiction

The companion volume to Torque, Torpor is J. Michael Yates’ second masterful collection of prose fiction. These compelling, often surreal works reveal a cryptic yet beautiful world in which nothing can be taken for granted.

Reviews:

“Great admiration for [Yates’] work.”
—Joyce Carol Oates

“A wild, unconventional imagination.”
—James Dickey

“He is on the frontiers of writing, a man who has evoked the admiration of fellow writers . . . his sense of fun and parody, and his deep awareness of the absurd help redeem the abstraction and obscurity of his writing. Every book that Yates produces is a foray into unknown territory.”
—Peter Buitenhaus, Dictionary of Literary Biography

“a wonder — a book of rich, round clarities which can be read from beginning to end like a novel or opened anywhere and sampled at random. Whatever way it is read, the result is enjoyment and understanding, and awe.”
—John Newlove, Schedules of Silence, Winner of the Writers’ Choice Award for 1987

“Yates is singular in that he writes like himself; he has no leaders, no fellow travellers . . . He lives on intimate terms with fact and imagination — the result is this rare purity of language.”
—Charles Lillard

“I find it the voice of my age: measured, ironic, at times rather cruel, and totally impossible to put down. I think it is the kind of book you read in one sitting and then return to it for several nights every year. I felt the man who wrote this book knew me and I would predict that a lot of people of our generation will feel the same.”
—George Jonas