Ray of the Star

Ray of the Star] grows steadily more sinister with each passing page. By the end, it is razor-sharp, and fast. It cuts. . . . For as the gears of the story’s clockwork catch, the novel becomes, at once, an oddly charming love story and something else entirely.” —Darby Dixon, Identity Theory “Arguably the most moving of Hunt’s novels.” —Tobias Carroll, Vol.1 Brooklyn “Here is a pyrotechnical novel that, with the arrival of the bloody-lipped horrors, propels its protagonist, Harry, through a concatenation of immense, sensuous sentences, on a tour of our modern world that escalates to an unimaginable velocity, among a clutter of clauses that refuse ordinary subordination and so becomes a lens for the meticulous exploration of the sublimity of the banal. Like The Impossibly, The Exquisite, and Indiana, Indiana before it, Ray of the Star is pure, wonderful writing.” —Samuel R. Delany