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THE OFF SEASON

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JACK CADY
  • June 2019      978-1-933846-80-4 
  • Cover design by Jennifer Tough

Time moves differently in Point Vestal, a sleepy northwestern town, where ghosts from the late 19th century roam the coastal streets as freely as the town’s living inhabitants. But underneath the touristy allure of this commingled past and present lies a creeping darkness. August Starling, a decadent (and dead) crime baron, has a plan for Point Vestal—whose magical nature has become a haven for sinners fleeing their crimes. And the only ones who can stop Starling are the town’s newest residents: a defrocked Episcopalian priest and a talking cat.

The Off Season is an effusive meditation on the nature of the fantastic, by a writer The Atlanta Constitution calls “a lasting voice in modern American literature.”

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“A fine, fabulous fable packed with marvelous events and wonders.”
     —Gahan Wilson

“Without a doubt Cady’s funniest, weirdest, most original, and—literally—spookiest novel yet.”
     —Peter S. Beagle

“A pungent mix of Tom Robbins, Ray Bradbury, and Charles G. Finney—but pure Cady, and it’s glorious.”
     —Greg Bear

“Jack Cady’s knack for golden sentences is an alchemy any other writer has to admire. “
     —Ivan Doig

“Jack Cady is above all, a writer of great, unmistakable integrity and profound feeling. He never fakes it or coasts, and behind every one of his sentences is an emotional freight that bends it both outward, toward the reader, and inward, back to the source.”
     —Peter Straub

“A writer whose words reverberate with human insight.” 
     --Publishers Weekly

“His structural control and the laconic richness of his style establish Cady in the front ranks of contemporary writers.”
     --Library Journal

“When Cady settles into yarn-spinning, his stories have the humor and comfortable mastery of Faulkner or Steinbeck.” 
 
     --National Review

  • ​ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jack Cady won The Atlantic Monthly “First” award in 1965 for his story, “The Burning.” He continued writing and authored nearly a dozen novels, one book of critical analysis of American literature, and more than fifty short stories. Over the course of his literary career, he won the Iowa Prize for Short Fiction, the National Literary Anthology Award, the Washington State Governor’s Award, the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the World Fantasy Award. Prior to a lengthy career in education, Jack worked as a tree high climber, a Coast Guard seaman, an auctioneer, and a long-distance truck driver. He held teaching positions at the University of Washington, Clarion College, Knox College, the University of Alaska at Sitka, and Pacific Lutheran University. He spent many years living in Port Townsend, Washington. ​
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