The Marrowbone Marble Company

By M. Glenn Taylor
(Ecco, Hardcover, 9780061923937, 368pp.)

Publication Date: April 21, 2010

Categories: General

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M. Glenn Taylor was born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia. This is his first novel. It was a Fall 2008 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and it was also a finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award. Taylor teaches English and fiction writing at Harper College in suburban Chicago, where he lives with his wife and two sons.

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"I was hooked immediately by the narrative voice, which I would describe as utterly kickass, take-no-prisoners in tone. The combination of hyperbole & hilarity throughout is what I would call High Hillbilly in the purest form."
-Chuck Kinder, Author of Snakehunter and Last Mountain Dancer

"Taylor's prose is so fluid and seemingly effortless that [it] bridges the usually irreconcilable gap between popular fiction and literary fiction. . . . A literary page-turner . . . stunning, fully realized, unique and ambitious book that proves there's still passion, fire, and brilliance in the American novel."
-Houston Chronicle

"The Ballard of Trenchmouth Taggart is picaresque, legendary, epic, and outrageous. . . . And with a narrative voice so confident, so compelling, so arresting and pure, the conclusion I came to is that Glenn Taylor must have channeled the whole damn thing."
-Sara Pritchard, Author of LATELY and CRACKPOTS