Michael Brownstein; Country Cousins

Series No.: NAF 09

ISBN: 978-0-940650-74-9, Pages: 349

American Literature, Fiction

A Sun & Moon title.

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Some reviews for the cloth edition of Country Cousins:

"Country Cousins is a work of genius. This is the most exciting novel I've read since Mailer and Burroughs."

—Michael McClure

"Country Cousins is an extraordinary work of art, an act of imagination.... The story is set in the summer of 1959, and is replete with town-and-country archetypes: the farm wife left alone after decades of dawn to dusk farm slavery, the local goons and demi-criminals who hang out in the taverns and pool-halls, the young married couples of the time, locked into a quest for fulfillment through fornication, the dumb but cunning local officials.... High-level commentary on an economic apparatus that preys on everybody and forces everybody to prey. [Country Cousins] could well be a textbook."

—Ed Sanders, The Village Voice

"Brownstein is a rare, pagan, howlingly funny and throat-catchingly sad writer.... His hero Martin Kilbanky is an extraordinary character who enlists the greatest compassion and rooting fervor from the spellbound reader."

—Seymour Krim

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Now available for the first time in paperback edition, this visionary comedy chronicles the cosmic, social, and sexual adventures of Martin Kilbanky as he tries to build a life for himself in the treacherous mirage of American adulthood.