Austin Nights [Kindle Edition]

herocious (Author)

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Product Description

Bridget had a fierce desire for survival which made her a fighter. Michael had a hankering after immortality which made him a useless dreamer. And that was the great difference between these two Austin transplants who loved each other so well.

Literature/Fiction
162 pages
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About the Author

I was born in Miami to a Colombian woman and an Anglo man. I have 'pieces' of myself scattered across the internet and my nail clippings float in multiple oceans. I edit TheOpenEnd and blog at MySwag. Like Don DeLillo, I believe each word triggers an electrical impulse inside our brains. When a perfect string of tiny explosions goes off, both readers and writers experience the deepest kind of pleasure. Austin Nights is my first novel.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 288 KB
• Publisher: Tiny TOE Press (July 7, 2011)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B004M8S60C
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #278,584 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

Michael Davidson (herocious) was born in Miami in 1979. He has 'pieces' of himself all over the internet. He edits TheOpenEnd and blogs at I Never Had An MFA, which is parked at herocious.tumblr.com. He is thinking about growing a scoby. Austin Nights is his first novel.

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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Literary Fiction, July 4, 2011

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P. Morin (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Austin Nights (Kindle Edition)

Sometimes I feel that the best literary fiction is where nothing much happens and everybody feels deeply about it. Put another way, literary fiction is where all of the action is between the head and heart.

However one defines it, I aver emphatically that Austin Nights is the best work of literary fiction I have read in several years.

Michael Davidson, the author, relates through Michael Davidson, the hero, a view of the world that is unique, innocent, obsessive, without cynicism and tragicomic. He does it with prose that makes you stop and re-read, not for meaning but for the simple pleasure of it.

This novel, where nothing much happens, will have a profound emotional effect on you. I feel guilty paying only .99 for it.

And this is Exhibit A in the failure of traditional publishing to spot genius.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Austin travel guide for the slipstream, July 8, 2011

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Nikki D - See all my reviews

This review is from: Austin Nights (Kindle Edition)

Bitterly funny and beautifully deranged, this lovely story pulled me into a vivid dreamspace where I embraced the knowledge that life today is increasingly surreal. As Kafka said, "A story should be an axe to break the frozen sea within us." The revolution will be printed, not televised!

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Summer Reading, June 23, 2011

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ML Kennedy - See all my reviews

This review is from: Austin Nights (Kindle Edition)

"Austin Nights" by Herocious is an engaging and lyrical tale of a young couple's journey and adjustment to life in Austin, Texas. Each half of this couple helps tell this story. Michael, a dreamer confronting the realities of adulthood, does most of the heavy narrative lifting while his girlfriend provides the occasional doses of perspective.

The book manages to be both poetic, honest and thematically dense.