Coming April 2010 (U.S.) / May 2010 (U.K.)
In his fifth novel, celebrated writer Scott Bradfield delivers an arresting and unsentimental childhood voice.
Salome Jensen is three years old when she is taken from her home by the man who fixes the hot
water heater. As Sal drifts through Laundromats and other people’s homes, she develops a perspective of the
world and an understanding of its people more meaningful than the most erudite observer could muster.
The People Who Watched Her Pass By is often hilarious as well as startling, and a poignant
new contribution to the body of literature of a respected prose craftsman.
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* Excerpted in Black Clock's Summer 2009 Issue.
* Excerpted in September issue of Neue Rundschauer.
“Bradfield is one of my favorite living writers.”
-Jonathan Lethem
“Scott Bradfield has not simply staked out new literary terrain . . . he has mapped and colonized
an entire new planet.”
-Michael Chabon
“A wizardly writer.”
-Tobias Wolff
“Painfully beautiful writing.”
-Mary Gaitskill
“A master chronicler of the absurdity, emptiness, and beauty that riddle modern life.”
-Caroline Hsu, The Washington Post
“A born novelist in a way Orwell never set out to be.”
-Will Hobson, The Observer
“Bradfield remains an inventive stylist who is leaving lots of tiny bite marks on T.C. Boyle's ankles.
This puppy can howl.”
-Henry Alford, The New York Times
"Combining elements of Thomas Pynchon, David Lynch
and - of all people - James Thurber, Bradfield charts the soft
underbelly of contemporary America."
-Sunday Telegraph
"There is something in Bradfield's approach to the
mystery of things that inevitably recalls the "Martian" poets or even
the work of Nicholson Baker, although Bradfield is a sharper, deeper
writer than these. He is always a joy to read, whether ironic and
cutting as he surveys millenial chaos, or disturbing and disorienting
in his intimations of mortality - individual and collective."
-New Statesman
"Bradfield is a wild card, the Raymond Carver of the
crystal-healing set."
-Independent
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Scott Bradfield has published stories, reviews, and essays in places as varied as
Bookforum, Poetry, Triquarterly, Fence, Fantasy and Science Fiction,
The Pushcart Prize Collection, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories,
TLS, The New York Times Book Review, Black Clock, The New York Ghost, and
Neue Rundschauer. His books include The History of Luminous Motion, What's Wrong with
America, Animal Planet, Greetings From Earth, and most recently, Good Girl Wants
it Bad and Hot Animal Love: Tales of Modern Romance.
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