Discussion → New Book by Fictionauts Gary Percesepe and Susan Tepper

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  Gloria Mindock

  Aug 22, 11:58am

  
  

  WHAT MAY HAVE BEEN
  Letters of Jackson Pollock & Dori G
  by Gary Percesepe and Susan Tepper
  
  What May Have Been is a novel in letters exchanged between the artist Jackson Pollock and his fictional lover, a young woman called Dori G.

  Gary Percesepe and Susan Tepper have created a luminous love story that takes place sometime during the late 1940's, in that sandy wonderland at the eastern tip of Long Island known as The Hamptons.

  Advance Praise

  "In this extraordinary novel, Pollock tells his lover that things like paint and wives are very small in the scheme of things. Gary Percesepe and Susan Tepper show how the great scheme of things is, in fact, in literary art, captured in paint and wives and a Montauk surf and a silky scarf and narrow hips and a cold water flat and a used Ford. Brilliantly conceived, brilliantly executed, this is a stunning book about art and about life."
  —Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
  
  "The fictional letters between Pollock and an imaginary Dori G come out in a hailstorm of paint flecks, lockets, long looks, kisses, blowing sand. Dori sees Jackson in his distance and his nearing, and his return to her like the visit of one of the Greek gods to his mortal lover, as piercing and as fatal."
  —Mary Grimm, author of Left to Themselves and Stealing Time

  "How to convey the irresistible pleasures of this novel in letters? The language mimics the slashing, dramatic immediate heroic gestures of abstract expressionism, is an extraordinary act of poetic invention, and tells a sexy and doomed love story."
  —James Robison, author of The Illustrator and Rumors

  "These two fervent voices exude the splendor and gloom of adulterous love."
  —Mark Wisniewski, author of Confessions of a Polish Used Car Salesman

  Fiction | $15.00 | ISBN 978-0-9844732-8-1 | 104 Pages
  Shipping Date: September 15, 2010
  Order online at http://www.thelostbookshelf.com/WhatMayHaveBeen.html

  What May Have Been: Letters of Jackson Pollock and Dori G
  $15.00
  
  Shipping
  $3.00
  
  Total
  $18.00
  
  
  Send check or money order payable to:
  Cervena Barva Press
  P.O. Box 440357,
  W. Somerville, MA 02144-3222
  e-mail: editor@cervenabarvapress.com
  

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