Something Out There in the Distance
Format:Hardback
Publisher:University of New Mexico Press
Publishing:13th Jan '26
£19.99
This title is due to be published on 13th January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Two lovers go on one final road trip through the American desert, hoping that they can outrun life itself.
Flash-fiction master Grant Faulkner and punk photographer Gail Butensky have partnered to create this unique narrative made up of stories alongside edge-of-the-world photography. The book tells of two lovers taking a reckless, searching road trip through the American West. Dawn is a photographer who captures desert landscapes. Jonny drives just to drive, running away from the end of time or running toward the end of time, looking for a home even as his restlessness overtakes him. By turns funny, poignant, and heartbreaking, something out there in the distance is big in emotions while brief in words. An extraordinary collaboration between word and image, Dawn and Jonny’s journey transports us to a place, achingly familiar, populated by love, loss, and wonder.
“‘You can’t take a bad photo of a highway’—my favorite quote from this beautiful little book about two lovers on the run from death. something out there in the distance reads like a song, and like a song it will echo inside you long after you’ve finished it.” - Molly Giles, author of Life Span: Impressions of a Lifetime Spent Crossing and Recrossing the Golden Gate Bridge
“The shape of this book is small but powerful, uncommon but familiar because it is about the unimaginable gap between breathing and dreaming that is grief. Grief literature is trending for a reason, because we are in a state of great loss and transformation. This work aims a bleary eye on the land, the sky, palm trees, and chlorinated pools and then into a single pair of bodies, restless, regretful, earnest, gorgeous, ashamed, and in love—then it waves good-bye to what will never be again.” - Venita Blackburn, author of Dead in Long Beach, California
ISBN: 9780826368584
Dimensions: 152mm x 178mm x 13mm
Weight: 216g
98 pages