Xstabeth

By David Keenan

TARGET CONSUMER

• For readers of Jesse Ball, Steve Erickson, Atticus Lish, The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall, Matthew McIntosh’s theMystery.doc, and fans of the literary avant-garde, uncategorizable and exploratory fiction.
• Great for music lovers

KEY SELLING POINTS

•  A book about sound and music, about love and family, exploratory but bursting with love and warmth
• Genre-bending and boundary pushing fiction with a big heart
• First of two novels by Keenan signed up

• Language: English
• Publisher: Europa Editions
• Release date: Mar 22, 2022
• ISBN: 9781609457358

David Keenan

David Keenan’s This Is Memorial Device won the Collyer Bristow Award for Debut Fiction and was shortlisted for the 2017 Gordon Burn Prize. His second novel, For the Good Times won the 2019 Gordon Burn Prize. Edna O’Brien described reading his third novel, Xstabeth (Europa, 2022), as “feel[ing] like being cut open to the accompanying sound of ecstatic music.” Monument Maker is his fourth novel. He lives in Glasgow, Scotland.

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