The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti [Paperback]

Stephen Graham Jones (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 5, 2008

Fiction. If there's a line between the real and the digital, between meat and the game, between past and present, then hold this book close to your mouth and whisper it into the pages. Please. Maybe the kid in there'll hear you. His name is Nolan Dugatti. He's lost, see, running down hall after hall, something both ancient and not-yet born galloping up behind him on a hundred legs, each individual footfall a sound he knows, a way of shuffling that he's always known. His father? Except it can't be. Unless of course this is another novel from Stephen Graham Jones. Not quite horror, not quite science fiction, but like his five or six other books, a story trembling at some pupal stage between meat and the game, where words will sometimes stop their crawl across the page and crane their neck around at the sky, nod about what they see there--you--then unfold their wings, drift up into another world altogether.

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About the Author

Stephen Graham Jones is a Blackfeet Native American author of experimental fiction, horror fiction, crime fiction, and science fiction. He shares a fan base with fellow authors Will Christopher Baer and Craig Clevenger known as The Velvet. The novel The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti was published in June 2008.

Product Details

• Paperback: 196 pages
• Publisher: Chiasmus Press (August 5, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0981502741
• ISBN-13: 978-0981502748
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,234,130 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Born and raised in Texas. Forty. Blackfeet. Into werewolves and slashers and zombies. Would wear pirate shirts a lot if I could find them. And probably carry some kind of sword. More over at http://demontheory.net.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Camopede Stalks, August 18, 2008

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Christopher Deal (Huntersville, North Carolina United States) - See all my reviews
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Coming along at around the same time as Ledfeather, Stephen Graham Jones 'The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti' is a great read. Written in a weekend, it reads as anything but. Video games and a father who can't quite kill himself make up Nolan Dugatti, who sits alone in night at his call center desk on the last night of his employment, waiting for someone to call, curious how to pass a level of a game no one has played in close to ten years, he waits, and when that phone finally rings, his night is just getting started, as something stalks through the building, something from the end of time and the beginning of his life, Nolan Dugatti will face what he has done. Stephen Graham Jones writes fiction that will haunt you.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A different look at guilt, video games, and shrimp, March 30, 2009

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Christopher Hutt "Dingo" (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti is a darkly humorous look under the hood of a young man wrestling with an unresolved past. I suppose that anyone whose father attempted suicide as a hobby would have more than a few daddy issues. The book takes place in a Kafkaesque cubical farm manned by the last employee of a long defunct software title. The premise was wholly original and engaging, and the pacing of the story kept tempo right until the end. Dugatti is a good weekend read that won't let up and leaves you checking under your bed for invisible centipedes.The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Book, January 6, 2009

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This was a great read. It was fun and light-hearted with a dash of dark twisted situations and humor. How can you go wrong with a book that sticks video games, ninjas, and failed suicide attempts all together and lets them simmer and soak into one another. Another great book by Stephen Graham Jones, what can I say... I'm not surprised. Read and enjoy.