The debut novel from one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists: a virtuoso, metaphysical thriller and a modern day retelling of Heart of Darkness.
Greg Jackson is author of the story collection Prodigals, for which he received the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 award and the Bard Fiction Prize. In 2017, he was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. His fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, Tin House, Vice, Conjunctions, Virginia Quarterly Review, the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Guardian, among other places. The Dimensions of a Cave is his first novel.
A very contemporary story about surveillance capitalism, virtual
reality, and 21st-century forever war, [that] will still be read a
century from now for the news it brings about the timeless riddle
of the human self. It's increasingly rare these days to find a
novelist with Greg Jackson's world-swallowing ambition, and rarer
still for one to make good on that ambition as gloriously as
Jackson does here
*Christopher Beha*
Greg Jackson's prose is sly, wise, and almost self-consciously
heroic, undaunted by the present moment, though it threatens to be
our last
*Joshua Cohen*
Greg Jackson is an athletically talented writer who packs so much
into every single sentence and scene it almost scares me. His debut
novel is somehow both a hardboiled thriller and a philosophical
treaty with dialogues that would make Sorkin blush
*Catherine Lacey*
Greg Jackson's Dimensions of a Cave is, sentence to sentence, a
linguistic marvel, a genre-bending tale with moral and
philosophical stakes as profound as they come
*Dinaw Mengestu*
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