The Fall Of Heartless Horse

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A post-modern generational family drama that is dark, hilarious, moving, this wildly original narrative deals with greed, inheritance, heroism, internecine intrigue, capitalism, sex, and the intertwining of public and private history. Kinney's startling, inventive debut, which draws on traditions of both poetry and prose, and pushes the envelope in both genres, has been compared with the works of Lewis Carroll and Anne Carson, and evokes qualities of opera, theatre, soap opera, epic, and melodrama as well.

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"Boy, can Dennis Cooper find 'em!" --John Waters, filmmaker

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Martha Kinney has won the following literary awards: Menn Prize for Fiction, Olin Poetry Award, Elizabeth Jones Writing Scholarship, and Pazo Mayberry Poetry Award. She has had poetry published in Columbia: a Journal of Literature and Art, Pearl, Luna, The Bitter Oleander, Five AM, and has poetry forthcoming in the anthology Airfare by Sarabande books. Dennis Cooper is the author of 'The George Miles Cycle, ' an interconnected sequence of five novels that includes Closer (1989), Frisk (1991), Try (1994), Guide (1997), and Period (2000). The cycle has been translated into fourteen languages. His most recent novel is My Loose Thread (Canongate, 2002). He lives in Los Angeles.