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Fever Chart Paperback – December 1, 2010

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Having spent most of his life medicated, electroshocked, and institutionalized, Jerome Coe finds himself homeless on the coldest night of the century — and so, with nowhere else to go, he accepts a ride out of New England from an old love's ex-girlfriend. It doesn't quite work out, but he makes it to New Orleans, and a new life — complete with a bandaged hand, world-champion grilled-cheese sandwiches, and only the occasional psychotic break. Things get better, and then, of course, they get worse. From a writer who's worked as a debt collector, book restorer, toilet scrubber, and door-to-door vacuum-cleaner salesman, Fever Chart is filled with a cast of Crescent City denizens that makes for one of the most vivid ensembles since Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces.

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December 1, 2010
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5.9 x 1 x 8.9 inches
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1934781991
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978-1934781999
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ McSweeney's (December 1, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1934781991
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1934781999
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.19 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.9 x 1 x 8.9 inches

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Bill Cotter was born in Dallas. His first two novels, Fever Chart (2009) and The Parallel Apartments (2014) were published by McSweeney’s, and his next two, Saint Philomene’s Infirmary for Magical Creatures (January 2018) and The Stone Sky (2019), will be published by Henry Holt. His writing has appeared in The New Orleans Review, The Paris Review, and elsewhere, and an essay for The Believer titled "The Gentleman’s Library" was awarded a Pushcart Prize in 2014. Cotter lives in Austin, where he has just finished a short story collection, and a novel about the lottery titled The Splendid Ticket.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 30, 2015

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Is everyone reading Bill Cotter? I sincerely hope so. This book is one of the weirdest, most vivid, crazed, and real novels I've ever read. More than anything, the author's blend of harsh, gross realism and magical fantasy feels uncannily close to the way I think that I couldn't help falling head over heels for this novel (and the author's other novel, The Parallel Apartments--go read that one too). If you love Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende and Chuck Palahniuk and Tom Robbins and that eerie "did that really happen or didn't it?" feeling of, say, David Mitchell's Black Swan Green or The Bell Jar, just read Bill Cotter. This is a emotional, hot, sticky, erotic, delicious, gross, sad, devastating book and I'm probably going to have to buy it again now because I gave it to someone I thought needed to read it but now I need to read it again.

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A Zany Romp Through Insanity

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 11, 2009

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A fast-paced, intricately woven plot that stimulates the imagination on how new elements will be integrated. A constant flow of fresh images...with taboo details that open a floodgate of memories of which one never speaks. Writing that is mostly one- and two-syllable words makes for lively reading while an artful peppering of multi-syllables lends an air of authority.

This romp includes travel through a psychotic break that gives a sense of what the seriously mentally ill can experience. And, of course, there is an abundance of sex, generally (though not always) antiseptic descriptions of activities with self and others. As for puzzles -- how will Omar Sharif factor in?

Straight-laced readers should be prepared to be dragged from their muddy inhibitions...into fresh mud, while the more liberated enjoy a sustained ride on the Coney Island Cyclone.

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Chad Lott

Hilarious Masturbation Scenes

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Quirky and enjoyable. I lived in New Orleans at the time the story took place and haunted quite a few of the places mentioned, so I was likely primed to like this more than the average reader. It's probably not for everyone, but if you like absurd and kind of dirty tales of mental illness, give it a shot.

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Fever Chart ---whirlwind of a read

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great story from a great publisher. I cannot help myself from buying almost every book that comes out from McSweeney's. Fever Chart is an incredibly original story line that has made me hungry for more from Cotter. I hope Cotter publishes something soon and through McSweeney's - the final product was amazing as well. Artwork and the textured cover made for a great end piece to my collection.

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This is us

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This is well written. Rough and raw characters that everyone should be able to identify with. Humble and grandiosely human, they laugh, cry, love and survive. Readers will garner instant empathy in their journeys.

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Terry Barham

You'll laugh and cry, Brillant !

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Enough plot synopsis already herein. Suffice it to say the characters are so bizarre and so well drawn the book will haunt you and make you ache for them. A brilliant realistic portrait of life, love, and loss, among the broken people we turn a blind eye to in our daily passage.

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A fantastic and strangely relatable story

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Read this when it was first released in hardcover and its still with me.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 7, 2012

As soon as I finished the last page I prepared a list of people to buy this book for. It's such a refreshing experience to read a well-written, hilarious, unique story with engaging characters and an advanced grasp of language.

The main character feels like a friend by the third page; all of the characters become people you've known, even the backgrounds are alive. It's a graphic novel but only in words, but not too wordy and flat. The descriptions pop with an originality you can almost taste. It's simultaneously comical, sad, convincing, surreal, sincere, and fantastical. Somehow throughout the shared journey of insanity there's a stability and trust in the voice of this story.

There are so many zany parts of Fever Chart that have become imbedded in my repertoire- it's the first story in years that (in addition to buying multiple copies to give to people) I've re-read it too many times to count. Jerome Coe, the main character, is one of the most interesting people you'll ever "meet."

Kudos to Bill Cotter's first attempt at writing... how's he going to top this?

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