Friday, June 09, 2006

Europa Editions also mines the foreign fields for its handsome paperback originals, published in Italy. But one of its new releases is pure Americana: the latest stark and extremely shapely book from Matthew F. Jones, author of Deepwater – which won raves and has recently been filmed. Boot Tracks has the grace of a Japanese Noh poem and the violence of two lives burning out in front of our eyes.