-
Your next favorite book
is waiting.
by Peter Conners
Conners is an American cousin to Michaux, Ponge and Kharms of the European prose-poem tradition.
"Starred Review. Prose poems, very short fiction, hard-to-classify compact meditations are enjoying some time in the sun now, and Conners's new pages approach the best in the lot." - Publishers Weekly
This information about The Crows Were Laughing in Their Trees was first featured
in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly "Publishing This Week" newsletter. Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition. The reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. If you are the publisher or author and feel that they do not properly reflect the range of media opinion now available, send us a message with the mainstream reviews that you would like to see added.
Any "Author Information" displayed below reflects the author's biography at the time this particular book was published.
Peter Conners is author of White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg and the memoir, Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead. His other books include the prose poetry collection Of Whiskey and Winter and the novella Emily Ate the Wind. He is an editor and marketing director for BOA Editions.
If you liked The Crows Were Laughing in Their Trees, try these:
by Keggie Carew
Published 2018
A spellbinding journey into surprising and shady corners of twentieth-century politics, a rackety English childhood, the poignant breakdown of a family, the corridors of dementia and beyond.
by Andrew Greig
Published 2016
Elderly narrator Harry Langton looks back on the adventures and friends of his youth, transporting the reader to the Scottish Borderlands at the end of the 16th century...
by Janet Frame
Published 2014
A wonderful social satire, a send-up of the cult of the dead author, and - in the best tradition of Frame - a fascinating exploration of the complexity and the beauty of language.
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them
Click Here to find out who said this, as well as discovering other famous literary quotes!
Can you name the title?
Test your book knowledge with our daily trivia challenge!
Your guide toexceptional books
BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.
