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| Clay Center |
| Phil Condon |
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One of Booklist Magazine's top ten first novels of 2004
Winner of the Faulkner Society of New Orleans Medal |
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Fiction
320 Pages
ISBN: 0-910055-95-5
Paper $18.95 |
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A moving love story, and a powerful psychological study of alienation and grief, Clay Center presents a startling examination of that time in which the American dream was revealed to contain its own nightmare. This brilliant novel of the Vietnam generation won the Faulkner Society's William Faulkner Prize. It's bold, direct prose and intense humanity give it the feel of a classic, the kind of book Faulkner himself would have loved.
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| Phil Condon is author of River Street: A Novella and Stories (Southern Methodist University Press, 1994). His stories have appeared in many journals, including Georgia Review, Sewanee Review, Manoa, New Letters, Shenandoah, Black Warrior Review, Epoch, and Prairie Schooner. He received a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1993. He lives in Missoula, Montana, with his wife, Celeste. Clay Center is his first novel. |
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| Praise for Clay Center |
"Novels about the Vietnam era tend to fall into two categories: being there and coming back. Clay Center is the only novel I've read that recalls what it was like for those who also served by staying home and saying no. The pointless destruction of natural youthful idealism by government cynicism and parental disdain that was the 'other war' of the sixties has not been sufficiently documented before. Clay Center is also a particularly timely reminder that the flag we so earnestly salute stands for the right to dissent. In my view it cannot be published soon enough."
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—Valerie Martin.......... |
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| "If you care at all about the idealistic hopes that ran so strong in the 1960s, and grieve for the seemingly irrevocable losses of faith suffered since, Clay Center is your book. Phil Condon has given us a story dense with memorable characters acting out vivid and sometimes heartbreaking lives. A great read." |
—William Kittredge.......... |
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| For more information on Phil Condon, visit his website: www.philcondon.com |
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