Some more great news: Pacazo was just awarded Word Riot Inc.'s 2012 Paula Anderson Book Award. Many thanks to Word Riot publisher Jackie Corley, and to everybody at Dzanc who had a hand in bringing Pacazo to life - they've never stopped investing in the book, never stopped looking for opportunities to spread the word, and I am grateful.
Many thanks to Chris Narozny for reading (and recommending) Pacazo: “Roy Kesey’s Pacazo offers just about everything you could ever think to love in a novel: a narrator with a keen mind and a messy life; paragraphs that, structurally, move like sonnets; and a clearly delineated plot serving as a kind of mooring post for digressions that, in true Cervantean fashion, are not digressions at all but rather the real substance of the book... This is the best novel I’ve read in a long while.”
April 11, 2012, 11:41 a.m.Categories: Novels, Pacazo, Peru, Review
Many thanks to Allan Jones and Uncut Magazine for an amazing review of Pacazo in their May issue: "500 pages of mesmerisingly wrought anguish, violence and derangement reminiscent of the best of Robert Stone or Denis Johnson. (…) There's an hallucinatory quality to much of Kesey's writing, feverish connections made between Segovia's present and Peru's past, ...tenses blurred and overlapping, then and now becoming one in stunning juxtaposition."
From Kate Saunders: "Roy Kesey’s book, set in the ancient city of Piura, is big, intelligent and wonderfully original."
February 11, 2012, 12:05 a.m.Categories: Novels, Pacazo, Review
Today is publication day for the Jonathan Cape edition of Pacazo for the U.K. and Commonwealth. Huge thanks to my editor, Alex Bowler; to Steven Parker for the beautiful design work, to Hannah Ross for the terrific P.R., and to everyone else on the Random House team.
