Wednesday, January 23, 2008

New blurb! From a dead man!

The novel is still a couple of months away from publication, and already the raves are piling up.

I'm very excited about this one:

"An insignificant trifle on the lives of provincial porpoises."
– Anton Chekhov (from a letter to A.S. Suvorin, Nov., 1889)

It certainly sums up the book, but I don't know – seems a little less glowing than I'd originally thought...
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