![]() With Rombes, Two Dollar Radio deftly demonstrates why it is rapidly becoming the go-to press for innovative fiction.” –Brian Evenson, author of Immobility and Last Days It is expert at creating a quietly building sense of dread while claiming to do something as straightforward as describe lost films–like those conversations you have in which you realize only too late that what you are actually talking about and what you think you are talking about are not the same thing at all. “Like a cross between Paul Auster’s Book of Illusions and Janice Lee’s Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at once smart and slyly unsettling. ![]() “Excellent and nightmarish … Rombes’s novel is a love letter to this art of misremembering: these ‘destroyed films’ become as real as any film playing in a theater near you.” – The Paris Review Here’s an excerpt at The Quietus, and at 3:AM Magazine. For our over-pixelated times, a novel that throws itself on the gears of the image machine. Roberto Acestes Laing, the obscure film obsessive who has destroyed rare, single-print films by notorious directors because their truth was too severe … and the journalist haunted by his own demons who’s tracked him down for a three-day interview in remote Wisconsin … and the waitress in yellow who knows too much … and the doorway that leads into a photograph …and the missing children. ![]()
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