Motorman

It is curious that a reprint could be heroic. It is more curious that a book this good could go out of print so quickly. And it is most curious that an introduction would even be required for a novel that, if you examine it carefully in the right kind of light, might actually be seen to be steaming. Motorman is a central work, pulsing with mythology, created by a craftsman of language who was seemingly channeling the history of narrative when he wrote it. It is a book about the future that comes from the past. To read motorman now is to encounter proof that a book can be both emotional and eccentric, smeared with humanity and artistically ambitious, messy with grief and dazzling with spectacle.Ohle, David is the author of 'Motorman ', published 2004 under ISBN 9780970942821 and ISBN 0970942826.