All Over - Softcover

Roy Kesey has been hailed as one of our best young writers, and All Over presents 19 of his most original and latest stories. George Saunders called Kesey’s writing, “beautiful and powerful... mythic, vivid, heart-rending." Roy's work has appeared in over 50 top flight literary journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Mississippi Review, and The Georgia Review. Several of the stories in All Over first appeared in journals such as Kenyon Review, McSweeney’s, Other Voices, and The Iowa Review. His story "Wait" will be included in Best American Short Stories 2007. Kesey’s writing in All Over is filled with great inventiveness, his characters and stories at once unique and familiar.

"In All Over, Roy Kesey’s postmodern parables are stunning mash-ups of style, content, characters. The book is a narrative train wreck that keeps happening of arcane jumbled juxtaposed graffitied rolling stock crashing into horribly hilarious verbal clown car kinetic sculpture." —Michael Martone, author of The Flatness and Other Landscapes, and other titles "All Over is the strangest, best collection of stories you will read this year. With a seamless blend of lyricism and minimalism, Roy Kesey travels All Over the terrain of he psyche, the human condition, the relationships we have and fail to have. These stories team with insights, little horrors, moments of sweet verity, and surreal surprise. The characters are persuasive, and the storytelling is both hallucinatory and familiar. This is a new voice you must hear." —Laura Kasischke, author of Be Mine, and five other titles