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Another blurb! This one from Robert Goolrick
How great is this...?!!!
"Joe Nelms' masterful debut is a heat seeking missile headed straight for your gut, and, be warned, it does not miss its mark. THE LAST TIME I DIED asks one simple question: how far would you go to recover your lost childhood, to get back to that state of grace before what happened happened, before you set out to lay waste to your own life and the lives around you, of those you love the most? The harrowing answer is the narrative of this wonderfully written book --- to the doors of death and beyond, until there's nothing left to lose and only one thing to gain. The White. Like a junkie, once you pick up this book, you do not put it down until all the dope is gone."
-Robert Goolrick, #1 NY Times bestselling author of
A Reliable Wife and Heading Out To Wonderful
"Joe Nelms' masterful debut is a heat seeking missile headed straight for your gut, and, be warned, it does not miss its mark. THE LAST TIME I DIED asks one simple question: how far would you go to recover your lost childhood, to get back to that state of grace before what happened happened, before you set out to lay waste to your own life and the lives around you, of those you love the most? The harrowing answer is the narrative of this wonderfully written book --- to the doors of death and beyond, until there's nothing left to lose and only one thing to gain. The White. Like a junkie, once you pick up this book, you do not put it down until all the dope is gone."
-Robert Goolrick, #1 NY Times bestselling author of
A Reliable Wife and Heading Out To Wonderful
Sara Gruen just blurbed my novel
"THE LAST TIME I DIED is a maelstrom of brilliant prose—dark, delectable, devastating, and utterly, utterly compelling. If this is Joe Nelms’ debut, watch out, world. Chuck Palahniuk fans will love this book."
- Sara Gruen,
#1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Water For Elephants
Just to reiterate, Chuck Palahniuk fans will love this book.
That's what you call a dream come true.
- Sara Gruen,
#1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Water For Elephants
Just to reiterate, Chuck Palahniuk fans will love this book.
That's what you call a dream come true.
Garth Stein just blurbed my novel
"In his riveting, searing debut, Joe Nelms forces his main character, Christian Franco, through a self-imposed, bone-crunching wringer that is painful to watch. And yet there is an ineluctability to the process which makes it impossible for us to stop watching; we feel compelled to witness a man break himself down because we understand it is his only hope of redemption, as tenuous as that may be. Perhaps "The Last Time I Died" is most disturbing when we understand that Franco's is the hand turning the crank of his own destruction; perhaps it is most disturbing when we realize that his story is but a laser-focused rendition of the small ways we each punish ourselves for our perceived misdeeds in the hope of some reconciliation. Perhaps this book is most disturbing when we see that Franco is just like us, as we are just like him. Every person owes it to himself to read this powerful, punishing, and, amazingly enough, hopeful novel."
- Garth Stein, NY Times Bestselling Author of
The Art Of Racing In The Rain
So, yes. This feels amazing. Love this guy.
- Garth Stein, NY Times Bestselling Author of
The Art Of Racing In The Rain
So, yes. This feels amazing. Love this guy.
