{"product_id":"the-visibility-of-things-long-submerged","title":"The Visibility of Things Long Submerged","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 12th Annual BOA Short Fiction Prize: Dripping with Southern gothic flavors, \u003cem\u003eThe Visibility of Things Long Submerged \u003c\/em\u003egazes at the holy and the obscene while plumbing gritty secrets of the human heart.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWith swamps, alligators, revival tents, faith healers, sex, death, guilt, sin and snakes, Looney leads us through a dark landscape brimming with the miraculous and the peculiar alike. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA man from a fire shows up on someone's doorstep, covered in ash and barely alive. One man’s actions make an entire town question its own violence. A healer is bitten in half by an alligator as a crowd looks on. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eDensely populated with characters that know intimately the trials of life and the restorative powers of love, these stories are filled with a deep longing for something beyond the restless disquiet. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eThe Visibility of Things Long Submerged \u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“With sorrow and hilarity (Who among us wouldn’t spend a Sunday morning at The Church of Jesus Christ Our Lover?), Looney’s chorus of saints, preachers, sinners, doubters, organists and acrobats, the damned and the saved, the bombastic and the fragile, their bodies ‘lost in their own flesh,’ their wetness ‘a kind of weeping,’ calls at us from these pages for nothing but love, love not for the sake of the voices themselves but as the one and only savior of humankind. The prose is heart-stopping, and if the sexual revolution hadn’t already happened, this splendid book might suffice.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Abby Frucht, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaids\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFruit of the Month\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“George Looney is a seismographer, an anthropologist, an excavator of hard truths. He has the spirit of a poet and the bravado of a born raconteur—his stories are lively, surprising, alternately whimsical and terrifying, anchored by the weight of his impeccably turned sentences. In these tales of faith healers and magicians, car crashes and questionable relics, he has captured the strange beauty of our world and the people we travel with, a perilous journey that he traces through the cracks in our hearts and the certainty of our bones, above ground and below.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Tina May Hall, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Snow Collectors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Physics of Imaginary Objects\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“George Looney cannot hide his gift for poetry within his prose, these stories humming with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eimagery, language, and above all else, Looney’s romantic heart. Whether it’s a fallen preacher, an alien abductee, or a mourning lover, the characters in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Visibility of Things Long Submerged \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ecarry Looney’s purity, passion, and soul. This is a lovely collection, an important work by an author who has found so much beauty in our world, in all the least likely of places.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Czyzniejewski, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Amnesiac in the Maze \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e I Will Love You for the Rest of My Life: Breakup Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“With one foot in religion and the other in the sacrilegious, George Looney’s superb \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ecollection is a study of the damage inflicted on us and that we live through and drag along \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ewith us. Eloquent and painful, these are hymns to what it means to have human failings and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003efierce desires in a world where the supernatural is sometimes more real than the real.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Brian Evenson, author of\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAltmann’s Tongue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43605922480357,"sku":"","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/FinalVisibilitySM.jpg?v=1666291540","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/the-visibility-of-things-long-submerged","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}