{"product_id":"perfect-circle-9781931520119","title":"Perfect Circle","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect Circle\u003c\/strong\u003e by Stewart, Sean. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9781931520119.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam “Dead” Kennedy is in trouble. He’s thirty-two, in love with his ex-wife, has lost his job, and he’s been dreaming about ghost roads again. Sometimes a guy is haunted for a really good reason.\n— Nebula and World Fantasy Award finalist\n— A Book Sense Notable Book\n— Best of the Year: Booklist, Locus, San Francisco Chronicle\n— A Locus bestseller\n\n\"Stewarts quicksilver wit makes Perfect Circle perfectly hilarious. And, a supremely skilled storyteller, he saves the best for last.\"\n—Texas Monthly\n\n\"Stewarts mastery of Wills first-person narration is unflinching and unfaltering. The voice conjured here is absolutely authentic and affecting.\"\n—Washington Post\n\"Stewarts compelling account of how DK comes to grips with his ghosts, both actual and metaphorical, is alternately poignant and hilarious, with some genuinely creepy moments and one or two powerful jolts.... Compelling ... with strong potential for crossing over into the mainstream.\"\n—Publishers Weekly\n\"All-around terrific.\"—Booklist (starred review)\n\"By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, Perfect Circle is ... an impressive example of an author using genre resources to stake out a territory that, for the moment at least, no one but he occupies.\n—Locus\n\n\"A read-at-one-go novel.... Everything is both stated and understated, elegant, full of the mundane horror and fear that inform a normal, frustrated life.... And it is well, well worth the reading. A highly recommended work.\"\n—F\u0026amp;SF\n\nSean Stewarts much-anticipated eighth novel is a dark, funny, fast-moving thriller that you wont want to put down. William \"Dead\" Kennedy has problems. Hes haunted by family, by dead people with unfinished business, and by those perfect pop songs that you cant get out of your head. Hes a 32-year-old Texan still in love with his ex-wife. He just lost his job at Pet-Co for eating cat food. His air-conditioning is broken, theres no good music on the radio, and hes been dreaming about ghost roads.\nWhen Wills cousin (\"My dad married your Aunt Dots half-sister\") calls in the middle of the night about a dead girl haunting his garage, it seems like an easy way to make a thousand dollars. But nothing is ever that simple, especially when family is involved. Wills mother is planning a family reunion of epic proportions. Wills ex-wife is married to a former Marine. His twelve-year-old daughter Megan thinks Will needs someone to look after him. And recently his dead relatives seem to want something from him.\n+++ punk attitude: country \u0026amp; western life +++\n\"Perfect Circle is a perfect read, exciting, unique, everything here but the Second Coming, but, Sean Stewart himself is the prize. What a talent. Write on, my man. Write on.\"\n—Joe Lansdale\n\"Needy Ghosts, bar fights, concealed weapons, R.E.M., and ramen noodles—Perfect Circle is an irreverent Texas treat. Sean Stewart is one bright, funny writer.\"\n—Stewart ONan\n\n\"Will Kennedy has some troublesome relatives. Especially the dead ones. Perfect Circle is Sean Stewart at his spooky, funny, sad, and haunting best.\"\n—Karen Joy Fowler\n\n\"A ghost story for grown-ups, frightening, funny, and finally redemptive. It kept me up way past my bedtime.\"\n—Harley Jane Kozak\n\"I read it all in one gulp, by turns fearful and joyful for Stewarts likable loser protagonist.\"\n—Cory Doctorow\n\"If Oprah read science fiction...This quirky, engaging novel tells the story of William \"Dead\" Kennedy, a thirtysomething former punk rocker and down-on-his-luck divorced dad—who sees ghosts. After a visit to his haunted cousin goes horribly wrong, \"DK\" finds himself getting lots of attention—mostly the wrong kind—from both the living and the dead. Funny and thought-provoking!\"\n—Carol Schneck, Schuler Books and Music, Okemos, MI\n\"My favorites among Sean Stewarts books are those that hover on the edge of our reality. His characters, like William \"Dead\" Kennedy are much like my friends and relatives -- although if any of my relatives are seeing ghosts, they havent mentioned this to me. Will leads a not-quite life in Texas, working in dead end jobs, and yearning to reconnect with his ex-wife, and trying to avoid ghosts. When a cousin calls with a ghost-busting request, his financial offer is more than Will can resist. But accepting the job opens Will up to a whole new level of darkness. Great prose (Stewart has some of the best metaphors going) and a melancholy mood, like music half-remembered.\"\n—Maryelizabeth Hart, Mysterious Galaxy Bookshop, San Diego, CA\nSean Stewart is the author of the \"I Love Bees\" and \"Beast\" search operas, two short stories and seven novels: Perfect Circle, The Night Watch, Nobodys Son, Clouds End, Passion Play, Resurrection Man, and Galveston. With Jordan Weisman, he is the author of Cathys Book and Cathys Key. His novels have received the Aurora, Arthur Ellis, Sunburst, Canadian Library, and World Fantasy awards. 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