At the Lucky Hand
aka The Sixty-Nine Drawers
Goran Petrovic author Peter Agnone translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Deep Vellum Publishing
Published:30th Jul '20
Should be back in stock very soon
Serial rights targeting The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Literal Magazine, Texas Monthly, Gulf Coast, McSweeney’s, The White Review; One Story, Guernica, Tin House, Words Without Borders, Asymptote Print publicity targeting prominent literary journals and newspaper book sections Promotion at the Texas Book Festival, Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, the American Literary Translators Association Conference, Brooklyn Book Festival, and Book Expo America Review copies will be sent targeting all major print and digital literary media outlets; additional review copies available upon request Promotion on the publisher's website (deepvellum.org), Twitter feed (@deepvellum), and Facebook page (/deepvellum) Promotion in the publisher’s e-newsletter
An award-winning novel that explores what it means to read and be a reader – ultimately acting as a love letter to the power of literature.At The Lucky Hand is an account of the different love stories that revolve around a very peculiar book: My Legacy, by Anastas Branica. At first glance, this is a book where there is no plot or characters, only descriptions. However, that is what makes it a self-sufficient space, a world that can only be inhabited by its readers, which Anastas has written in order to live, within the book, with his beloved. Through what Petrovic called “simultaneous reading”, it is possible to coincide with other people in the same book, and not only that, but also to live beyond what is simply written. Within this experience of reading-while-reading, participants are able to access a meeting place that is outside of reality. How else can we describe what happens to us when we read with true conviction, when books become life, palpable, manifested, when books become part of our physiology, when love is incarnated in the reading that two strangers perform at the same time, hoping that time will be abolished by the mere fact of fixing their gaze on a page? In short, what the reader of this book will surely experience, along with all the other readers who coincide in the experience, will be a state of joyous stupefaction. Above all else, the book is a love letter to the power of literature.
"Goran Petrović proves to be a master of lyrical storytelling and dreaming."— Jovan Delic, juror for Ivo Andrić Grand Prize for Lifetime Achievement "Pushing the idea of a 'community of readers' to fantastical and fascinating extremes and bending it around a classic story of separated lovers and hopeless romantics, At the Lucky Hand is like Shadow of the Wind told through the lens of playful deconstruction. It is a book lover's book that celebrates what we share in books, while wondering at all the ways we can love through them." ––Josh Cook, Porter Square Books "Above all, the basis of the story is clearly that books are life and life is books, with the two intertwining and overlapping continually... Imaginative and most original and you cannot help but be impressed with all the ins and outs of the tale." ––The Modern Novel “Various love stories centered around a book, in a collection that celebrates the power of literature.”— The New York Times “One could spend a pleasant hour wandering inside nearly every evocative sentence of At the Lucky Hand...Irresistibly engaging and virtuosically crafted, At the Lucky Hand marries high theory with high drama in spaces so quiet and invisible, that their liveliness takes one completely by surprise.”—Asymptote Journal “Petrović creates a world all about the passion for books: A series of detective and love stories that revolve around bibliophilic obsessions. In the process, he explores what it means to be a reader, and how fantasies transmute our reality.”—Asymptote Book Club
ISBN: 9781646050147
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
336 pages