GAINESVILLE (2024 re-issue)
"Anything can happen to the characters here,and over the course of this brief, breathless book almost everything does… And, in the way that Winnette creates them, in the deft gestures and care of his language, they come fully, blazingly, painfully alive. Gainesville is an original and compelling book that deserves a larger readership."
—from the foreword by Brian Evenson, author of Good Night, Sleep Tight and A Collapse of Horses
“Winnette moves in and out of plot as if to deny the very idea of plot, yet adores narrative so ardently he fills every space with a new tale or idea. Let him be the historian of a young nation yet unseen."
—Jesse Ball, author of The Curfew
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Written in a seamless, entrancing style, Gainesville follows the twisted branches of a restless family tree in a small Texas town.