A Place in the Sun
“A deeply engrossing book, I couldn’t put it down. And now that I’ve finished reading it, I can’t put it away, for how it furthers my thinking of the genre itself. A Place In The Sun beautifully combines the high action and salaciousness of page-turners, with the self-reflection and risk-taking of post-modern fiction. It’s a must-read and a must-study.”
“Lewis Warsh brings his poet's sensibility to a mash up of literary and genre fiction techniques—including constantly shifting perspectives and unexpected interconnections—to create an intriguingly compelling and deeply satisfying reading experience. I loved it.”
“A Place in the Sun is a beautifully rendered and expertly deconstructed novel. Warsh's stunningly effective use of multiple narratives, provided in exquisitely detailed lines, conveys an elastic and powerful emotional honesty. This is a sensual and desperate story from a writer with formidable powers of invention.”
“In weaving together the cold, explicit facts, gossipy rumors and largely sexual fantasies of the lives of Clift, Taylor, and Drieser, Lewis Warsh creates a tripartite threnody of its own genuine American tragedy, the off-screen, off-page dark truths hidden beneath the drab, glittering surface crust of American life. William Carlos Williams wrote in “To Elsie”: “The pure products of America go crazy....” Warsh has captured that in mimicking a sensationalized tabloid voice of a 1950s Confidential mag's hot, breathless prose, and taking a transcendent leap from that gossip and rumor into one of the “great poems of death” Walt Whitman exhorted American poets to write.”