Praise for Cynan Jones:
[A] piercing novella. . . . Like Cormac McCarthy, Jones can make the
everyday sound fraught and biblical. --Kirkus Reviews, starred
review
Jones's perfectly pitched novel will appeal to anyone looking beyond
sheer thrills. --Library Journal
This slim volume has all the gravity of a black hole, and reading it is
like standing on the event horizon. . . . It's like a more beautiful
Cormac McCarthy; a darker W.H. Auden. --Elliot Bay Book Company
"Jones is a Welsh writer who has been compared to Cormac McCarthy, but
his sparse style also recalls Ernest Hemingway." --Kirkus, Foreign
Influence
There's nothing bucolic about this elemental, extraordinary tale of good
and evil. --Shelf Awareness
"Jones deftly explores his characters' motives, particularly the hope
they cling to despite the risks they take." --Booklist
"It's as if the novel is the slowed-down spinning of a bullet through
the grooves of a barrel, waiting to be released into the world."
--Vol. 1 Brooklyn
"Darkly luminous . . . [Jones] builds tension in an ultimately
gripping and important story that transcends its own bleakness."
--Library Journal
When a net is set, and that's the way you choose, you'll hit it. Hold, a
Welsh fisherman, Grzegorz, a Polish migrant worker, and Stringer, an
Irish gangster, all want the chance to make their lives better. One kilo
of cocaine and the sea tie them together in a fatal series of decisions.
Cynan Jones was born near Aberaeron on the west coast of Wales in
1975. He is the author of four short novels, most recently The Dig
(Coffee House Press, 2014), which won a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize
in 2014 and the Wales Book of the Year Fiction Prize 2015. His work has
been translated into several languages, and short stories have aired on
BBC Radio and appeared in a number of anthologies and publications
including Granta.Everything I Found on the Beach is the second of
three United States releases of his work by Coffee House Press.
