Dennis Cooper, author of transgressive classics Closer and Frisk, has included The Plight House (alongside works by Jean-Christophe Valtat and Pascal Quignard) in his recent blog entry “Three books I read recently and loved”.
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Dennis Cooper ♥ The Plight House
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010The Plight House featured at Blackberry Books
Monday, April 26th, 2010With this novel, Jason Hrivnak will reach inside you and pull your heart out. The unnamed narrator takes us on a deeply personal journey after learning of the suicide of his childhood best friend. This doesn’t read like a typical novel and therein lies its strength — Hrivnak doesn’t follow conventions of style or narrative and this allows him to reach new depths and heights of despair, hope, passion and pain.
— MARY-ANN
Globe and Mail review
Friday, March 5th, 2010Hrivnak succinctly posits a triple-barrelled theme: grief bound tightly with innocence and guilt … [He] is an elegant and often incisive prose stylist, skilled at image-making and intent on exploring difficult questions of personal and societal responsibility.
— JIM BARTLEY
Review on Dead Clothes Sing
Sunday, October 18th, 2009Heartbreak, horror, and impossibly brutal choices may all be yours in The Plight House. This first novel by Jason Hrivnak is like nothing I’ve ever read, and still troubles me.
— CREFFIELD
Lynn Crosbie review
Sunday, September 13th, 2009First Rule of The Plight House: everyone talk about The Plight House. Hrivnak writes like a crazy angel in this addictive, astonishing debut.
— LYNN CROSBIE
