Victims
Travis Jeppesen
$18.00 | ISBN: 979-8-9882829-2-1 | Nov. 28, 2023
Paperback | 5.5x8.5” | 210pp
SAVE YOURSELVES.
In a barren field in the fictional town of Monkhole, Herbert stands watch over the cows—his sole form of amusement—daydreaming of his mother, who has disappeared with a UFO cult, the Overcomers. Meanwhile, his friend Howard works obsessively on a tome about victimology.
It may be up to their friend Ruphis to unravel the mystery of the Overcomers, Herbert’s battle against gravity, Howard’s against the great white wall and the nature of those mysterious lights hovering in the clouds…
Travis Jeppesen’s debut novel, first published in 2003, and again in 2014 with an introduction by late author and poet Kevin Killian, set literary culture off balance by giving voice to the demented lifestyle of cultists. Victims returns for a third time to reanimate these spectral figures, and the forces and forms hidden in their shadows.
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“Victims holds a remarkably confident and able line through complicated waters… brilliant.” —Tom McCarthy
“An artfully fractured vision of memory and escape…” —Village Voice
“Jeppesen’s novel has the potential to change your life.” —Bookslut
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TRAVIS JEPPESEN is the author of ten books, including The Suiciders, Settlers Landing, and See You Again in Pyongyang. His latest play, Ghosts of the Landwehr Canal, recently premiered at the Berlin Ringtheater, under the direction of Wang Ping-Hsiang. Jeppesen has contributed essays and reviews to the New York Times Magazine, Artforum, Mousse, Wall Street Journal, The Believer, Review of Contemporary Fiction, and other media. An accomplished art critic, he is the recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. His calligraphic and text-based artwork has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Wilkinson Gallery (London), Exile (Berlin), and Rupert (Vil-nius), and featured in group exhibitions internationally, including the 2014 Whitney Biennial.