Brian Kiteley is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Denver, and the author of Still Life With Insects, I Know Many Songs, But I Cannot Sing, The 3 A.M. Epiphany, and The 4 A.M. Breakthrough.
"In The River Gods, Brian Kiteley masterfully employs his patent
narrative method of uncanny subtraction, removing the ligatures of
conventional fiction the better to provide a field of implication
in which the historical mysteries of America can resonate to
maximum effect. In response to the post modern insight that
everything is happening at the same time, he brings demonstrable
proof of the fact in this luminous, perfectly sculpted novel whose
sentences flow as easily through the mind of a nine year old boy in
1960's America as they do that of an 18th century Puritan divine.
The River Gods is one of the most searching portraits of our
country I've ever read."-- Eli Gottlieb
"Brian Kitely, a writer of great delicacy, perspicacity, and guile,
has in The River Gods presented us with a cornucopia of bittersweet
vignettes: glimpses of the lives and deaths, the loves and larks
and sorrows of a New England town, told outside chronology and
inside the vision of several centuries interlaced. The book may
have its precedents, but it is in essence strikingly original, and
it deserves to become a classic, for all its sophistication a very
American one: it tells us who we have been, in a way we never could
have guessed."--Harry Mathews
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