Michael Brodsky
We Can Report Them

In his new novel, one of the most challenging and thought-provoking American writers working today, an American "master both of technique and of language" (Publishers Weekly), examines nothing less than the creative process: an urge that is at once corrupting and uplifting.

Bert, the director of an unorthodox TV commercial, aims to canonize a serial killer as a viable culture hero. Pudd, the serial killer in question, has delivered up his last days to the machinery of pseudoreligious conversion on institutional terms. And Joyce, the quintessentially "difficult" patient combating her fatal disease on any terms but the real ones — all seek the Answer through creation. Each strives to bring forth his or her unique take on what is real through defiance of what the authorities — medicos, the media, men of the cloth, market analysts and academics — deem so.

We Can Report Them is a chronicle of the doomed, leavened by Brodsky’s intricate, anarchic take on what passes for reality.

ACCLAIM FOR MICHAEL BRODSKY:

"You know at once you are in the unrelenting grip of a serious workman who reserves the right to amaze you several times on each page with sheer prose felicity.… An anthem sung from an urban dump." — The New York Times Book Review

"An immensely talented writer." — The Review of Contemporary Fiction

"A complex, lucid book… Brodsky’s works of fiction are critically important, both for the standards of twentieth century literature and for the individual act of reading." — The American Book Review

"A stunning redefinition of the novel, a postmodern extravaganza… Brodsky has been compared to Thomas Pynchon, and with good reason." — The San Francisco Chronicle

"Brodsky is a master both of technique and of language, his sentences positively crackling with unexpected insights." — Publishers Weekly

"Intricate, ambitious, and challenging." — Kirkus Reviews

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