PRAISE FOR ROBERT KLOSS AND THE REVELATOR

“Robert Kloss is quickly building a blazing reputation as a literary perfect weapon: he is a sentence architect like Gary Lutz, yet at the same time, he’s also able to spin intimate, oddball yarns in the vein of William Gass and Shelley Jackson. Revelator showcases these unique skills. Go all in on Kloss now before he’s buffing his Pulitzer.”

—Joshua Mohr, author of All This Life

“Robert Kloss writes with the passion of a young Cormac McCarthy, fearless in both scope and the possibilities of language, and blessed with an innate ability to parse the light from any darkness. It’s rare such an eagle eye emerges among Americans. He should be savored.”

—Blake Butler, author of Three Hundred Million

“The Revelator leads us through the life and times and beyond of its title character, from orphan to prodigal to itinerant preacher to prophet (and purveyor of dirty jokes), in a narrative that reads like the gospel of an alternate universe, but as awash in fury and carnage as our own.”

—Eugene Marten, author of Layman’s Report

“The Revelator carries traces of Carson McCullers, Flannery O’Connor, and the rattling bones of Bill Faulkner…I felt transported mind, body, and soul to some weird liminal space where a prophet can emerge from the dirt and speed of things, from the darkness in us all brought forth by a ready-made zealot who can turn on a dime. Read it and weep—because this novel turns us inside out in the best way.”

—Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Small Backs of Children and The Chronology of Water