Above: Author Antoine Wilson looks like a happy person, which makes sense seeing as everybody (see below) totally loved his first novel, The Interloper.
Glass Bookcase Reading Series: Antoine Wilson. Thursday, September 27th, 7 p.m., 6191 Helen C. White Hall
As assured and sumptuously written as any first novel I've encountered--Antoine Wilson's prose sings and the story he tells here is both clever and compelling. This is writing at its very best.
-- T.C. Boyle
Antoine Wilson’s novel snuck up on me: deceptively normal prose, a tightening plot, a quickening read, and then before long I was up late all scared and sad and freaked out. Who is this guy? I’m keeping my eye on him and you should too.
-- Daniel Handler, author of Adverbs
The Interloper is tautly written, suspenseful, and abidingly strange, a first novel that defies expectations in the most delightful way. Antoine Wilson delves into the dark corners of the human psyche and we readily follow, guided by his keen intelligence, wry humor, and razor-sharp prose. At once horrifying and oddly affecting, this book makes for compulsive reading.
-- Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, author of Madeleine Is Sleeping
His novel might be named for altogether different reasons, yet it's author Wilson who has proven to be the true interloper.
Although his pedigree is impressive (Iowa Writer's Workshop, the Paris Review, Best New American Voices), Wilson has come seemingly out of nowhere to deliver a novel that is confident, well-paced and very, very creepy. Were he to meddle in literary affairs again and again, the world would be the better for it.
-- Tiffany Lee-Youngren, San Diego Union-Tribune
[A] pleasantly creepy debut novel... the pathos, delusion and hope festering within Owen will carry readers through.
-- Publishers Weekly
The pleasures of this wry debut novel lie not in wondering if things will turn out badly for Owen but in how badly they will go and how unreliable his narrative really is.
-- Booklist
Wilson’s vivid first-person portrayal of Owen’s slow crescendo into obsession—despite its effect on the world he wants to restore—is disturbingly powerful...Wilson takes his readers down a dark spiraling path with an ever-increasing tempo where past childhood memories and hatred collide with resounding tragedy.
-- Nelly Heitman, ForeWord Magazine
OH, what thrilling dread, falling in with a character as twisted as the narrator of Antoine Wilson's terrific first novel, The Interloper. It's like leaving a party with a designated driver, only to discover as you swerve down the driveway that your new friend is drunker than you are. Or worse, completely insane.
-- Jess Walter, LA Times Sunday Book Review
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