The Glamshack
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Celebrity journalist Henry Folsom is in love with Her, a deer-hued beauty whose smile is an Event. The only problem is Her fiancé in New Orleans. And She's going to see him for twelve days, while Henry smolders in The Glamshack, his borrowed Silicon Valley poolhouse and site of their affair. Mesmerized by the American Indian wars, grasping for the divine as he relives this bloodied love, Henry must decide what it means to make his Last Stand.
Named a must-read debut by B&N Reads,The Glamshack is a lyrical, darkly humorous novel on the nature of love, divinity, the Plains Indian Wars, and masculinity. A bold, accomplished work set at millennium's end, the book echoes early prose masterpieces of Cormac McCarthy and Martin Amis.
"(The Glamshack) fits together like a beautiful puzzle without losing any sense of urgent personal anguish."
— B&N Reads 10 Debut Novels for Your Autumn (2017) Reading List
"In his debut novel, Cohen manages the impressive feat of memorably documenting obsession without surrendering to it."
— Kirkus Reviews
"[With] Joycean vivacity . . . Cohen takes readers on the deepest of dives into the psyche and imagination of a man who is so full of passion that it threatens to swallow him whole."
— Boulder Daily Camera
Sinewy yet atmospheric, propulsive and probing...The Glamshack represents an audacious attempt to reilluminate (fundamental) mysteries."
— Entropy Magazine
"There is a powerful, innate tension in his writing which comes not only from his voice but from his particular way of looking at things, an unusual way, and in art in fiction the only real worlds are likely to be the unusual."
— James Salter
"There is so much to admire in Paul Cohen's beauty of a first book. It is smart, sexy, wonder-filled, haunting and oh so marvelously, so humanly strange. Here even meat (venison) can be graceful. Here the heart grows hot, the soul burns dark and Desire blows a thousand horns"
— Laird Hunt, author of Zorrie, 2021 National Book Award Finalist
"Funny, intense and brilliant, this is a book about love but also about the self's ability to with-stand love. Every sentence is poetic, magnetized, in love with life. The language in this book cuts so close to the heart of experience that it feels very much like life itself--sacred, invincible, beautiful, full of meaning"
— Rebecca Lee, author of Bobcat, winner of the Believer Book Award
"Cohen is creating new language, finding surprising combinations that are both familiar and wonder-inducing."
— Heavy Feather Review
"An inventive and intense debut."
— LargeHearted Boy