The Full-Moon Whaling Chronicles

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The follow-up to Guriel'sNYT New & NoteworthyForgotten Work is a mashup ofMoby-Dick, The Lord of the Rings, Byron, cyberpunk, Swamp Thing, Teen Wolf ...and more.

Its 2070. Newfoundland has vanished, Tokyo is a new Venice, andmany people have retreated to bonsai housing: hives that compressmatter in a world thats losing ground to rising tides. Enter Kaye, anEnglish literature student searching for the reclusive author of a YAclassica beloved novel about teenage werewolves sailing to a fabledsea monsters nest. Kayes quest will intersect with obsessive fansubcultures, corporate conspiracies, flying gondolas, ananthropomorphic stove, and the molecular limits of reality itself.Set in the same world as Jason Guriels critically acclaimed verse novelForgotten Work, which the New York Times" and written in virtuosic rhyming couplets, The Full-MoonWhaling Chroniclesdestined to draw its own cult-following.

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Praise for Forgotten Work

"A futuristic dystopian rock novel in rhymed couplets, this rollicking book is as unlikely, audacious and ingenious as the premise suggests."
--New York Times

"A wondrous novel."
--Ron Charles, Washington Post

"What do you get when you throw John Shade, Nick Drake, Don Juan, Sarah Records, and Philip K. Dick into a rhymed couplet machine Equal parts memory and forgetting, detritus and elegy, imagination and fancy, Forgotten Work could be the most singular novel-in-verse since Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate. Thanks to Jason Guriel's dexterity in metaphor-making, I found myself stopping and rereading every five lines or so, to affirm my surprise and delight."
--Stephen Metcalf

"This book has no business being as good as it is. Heroic couplets in the twenty-first century It's not a promising idea, but Forgotten Work is intelligent, fluent, funny, and wholly original. I can't believe it exists."
--Christian Wiman

Author Bio

Jason Guriel is the author of several books including the verse novel Forgotten Work (Biblioasis, 2020). His writing has appeared in Air Mail, The Atlantic, Slate, The New Republic, The Yale Review, The Walrus, Poetry, and elsewhere. He lives in Toronto