The launch of a poetic debut novel by Steven Hendrick’s is underway at Kickstarter.com (see here).
The story is a dark affair, about a man suffering from dementia who “finds” the body of his son washed up on the beach two decades after the boy committed suicide. The man brings the boy’s body back home and puts it in bed, and then proceeds to read some of the boy’s favorite bedtime stories. Of course the stories are darker than normally expected, filled with modern day myths and fables that happen to reflect the real world more than we would like to think.
“The haunting fables in this lyrical first novel trace the fictions that make and unmake us.”
Of his debut novel Little Is Left to Tell, Steven Hendricks writes, “I took the title from Beckett’s entr’acte, Ohio Impromptu. Folks who’ve read it, or who have heard me read from it at various venues, are glad that it has rabbits in it. One early reader said… ‘it’s like Watership waaaaaay Down’.”
While the author does not live in Buffalo, Starcherone Books is located in Buffalo and is helping to get authors from around the country and their works published (see here).