Weirdly Out West

BLAZING TALES OF COWPOKE LIT! Rhys Hughes saddles up & blasts his way across the vast plains — kickin' up trouble in this hog-wild collection of Western Weirdness. Using various forms (short stories a play, lonesome poems — even a garsh-dang essay!), he roasts the genre & serves up some hearty, avant-garde grub — fresh as a dew-dappled Texas rose. “Rhys Hughes seems almost the sum of our planet’s literature. He’s as tricky as his own characters. He toys with convention. He makes the metaphysical political, the personal incredible and the comic hints at subtle pain.”— MICHAEL MOORCOCK “A dazzling disintegration of the reality principle. Raises the bar on profundity and sets a comic standard for the tragic limits of our human experience. Like Beckett on nitrous oxide. Like Kafka with a brighter sense of humour.” — A.A. ATTANASIO “If Hughes ever stops writing fiction I will shoot him.”— JEFF VANDERMEER “If I said he was a Welsh writer who writes as though he has gone to school with the best writing from all over the world, I wonder if my compliment would just sound provincial. Hughes’ style, with all that means, is among the most beautiful I’ve encountered in several years.” — SAMUEL R. DELANY Guns, puns, cowgirrrls & tumbleweed — what more could ya ask for. Absurdist Texts & Documents Series (No. 42)