May 10th, 2011 / 5:00 pm
 Presses

Michael Kimball’s US [Tyrant Books, 2011]

At last in its U.S. edition, Tyrant Books makes their third release in the form of Michael Kimball’s gorgeous US (formerly released in a different version overseas as How Much of Us There Was).

This is one of like three books ever that made me cry. I read it in a bathtub, all in one go. It is essentially the story of a old man losing his wife to sickness, but rendered in a way that only Michael Kimball knows. You should find out.

Shipping now from Tyrant Books.

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15 Comments

  1. May 10th, 2011 / 9:34 pm Adam Robinson—

      What do people think of the cover? It’s really growing on me.

  2. May 10th, 2011 / 10:03 pm Josephriippi—

      I like the cover a lot. Much more fitting to the book than the UK cover.

  3. May 10th, 2011 / 10:13 pm Scott mcclanahan—

      It’s like a Rothko or something.

  4. May 10th, 2011 / 11:13 pm deadgod—

      It’s a good cover – like an X-ray of an evenly dense body or tissue – , but is the title really US, or Us?

  5. May 10th, 2011 / 11:22 pm Anonymous—

      tinyurl.com/297sxrk

  6. May 10th, 2011 / 11:30 pm Ken Baumann—

      Yes. Ordered mine.

  7. May 11th, 2011 / 12:04 am J. A. Tyler—

      So happy to see this out in the new version. Get it people, you will be stunned.

  8. May 11th, 2011 / 2:22 am elizabeth ellen—

      what were the other two books, blake? also, the image of you crying in a bathtub that must have been lukewarm at best and frigid at worst…that’s commitment to literature. assuming, of course, there was water in the tub.

  9. May 11th, 2011 / 11:57 am Anonymous—

      tinyurl.com/297sxrk

  10. May 11th, 2011 / 12:41 pm J. A. Tyler—

      Brian Evenson’s Baby Leg and Eugene Marten’s Firework, both are awesome,

  11. May 11th, 2011 / 10:18 pm Sean—

      Just ordered my copy!

  12. May 11th, 2011 / 10:19 pm Sean—

      It has an X ray feel. Ghostly. Like something important is happening in life. I like it.

  13. May 11th, 2011 / 10:19 pm Sean—

      Firework is beyond awesome.

  14. May 12th, 2011 / 11:55 pm Anonymous—

      tinyurl.com/297sxrk

  15. May 13th, 2011 / 4:19 pm Anonymous—

       tinyurl.com/297sxrk