Light Boxes
From Underground Library
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| Categories | microfiction novel |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Publishing Genius |
| First issue | February 2009 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Website | http://www.lightboxes.com |
Light Boxes is a novel by Shane Jones. The website for the novel can be found at WickedSad.com [1].
Book Details
At 175 pages long, Light Boxes is the longest publication from Publishing Genius to date. The cover image is a photograph from British artist Nicholas Hughes and was designed by Adam Robinson, Stephanie Barber and Leah Ammerman. There are five typefaces in the text.
Honorable Mentions
In April, 2009, Light Boxes was noted by Goodreads as a "mover and shaker," a development which gave the book an unusual amount of exposure for a small-press title.
The mention is here quoted in full:
In this topsy-turvy surrealist novel, the bitterly cold month of February refuses to leave a small town, so a balloonist named Thaddeus steps in to organize a revolt against the wayward month, hoping one day to see spring flowers again. Rauan calls it "a make believe-world in the style of Calvino." And Claudia says, "Light Boxes delights in the landscape of childhood fantasies and literature; there are balloons, kites, teacups, parchment letters, secret passages, and ghosts. Jones has an intuitive feel for mixing the everyday with the sublime."
