FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Mark Givens / 909-293-9270 / mark.givens@pelekinesis.com

Title: Whistler's Mother's Son
Author: Peter Cherches
Category: Fiction
Publication Date: March 23, 2020
Pages: 240
Binding: paperback
ISBN: 978-1-949790-17-7
Suggested Retail Price: $20.00

Claremont, CA – December 23, 2019 – Pelekinesis is pleased to announce the upcoming release of Whistler's Mother's Son, new fiction from Peter Cherches, available March 23, 2020 worldwide.

How do you begin to describe a collection of over 100 short prose pieces of varying length and styles when the only thing they all have in common is weirdness? Maybe you say it features parodies, standardized tests, nursery-rhyme anxieties, fables, riddles, collaborations, conundrums, rescued clichés, abominations-in-training, dark Americana, existential misdemeanors, misbegotten mysteries, identity crises, optimistic nihilism, formal experimentation, and polyrhythmic prose, with a side of word salad. Maybe you say it runs the stylistic gamut from minimalism to satire to noir to children's tale to abstraction to surrealism. Maybe you say the characters include Hamlet, Gertrude Stein, Amelia Earhart, Fred Flintstone, Mr. Mondrian, a little girl whose mother takes up with a smelly old man, embattled aunties and uncles, a man with two mustaches, several hard-boiled dicks, and an eternally confused Peter Cherches. Or maybe you just read the book and leave such worries to the very talented copywriter.

Whistler's Mother's Son by Peter Cherches will be available through Small Press Distribution, Baker & Taylor, Bertrams, directly from the publisher's website, and in fine local bookstores worldwide.

The page at Pelekinesis for supplemental material is here: http://www.pelekinesis.com/catalog/peter_cherches-whistlers_mothers_son.html

For more information please contact Mark Givens at 909-293-9270 or mark.givens@pelekinesis.com

About the author

Called “one of the innovators of the short short story” by Publishers Weekly, Peter Cherches is a writer, singer and lyricist. Over the past 40 years his writing, both fiction and nonfiction, has appeared in dozens of magazines, anthologies and websites. His first recording as a jazz vocalist, Mercerized! Songs of Johnny Mercer, was released in 2016. He is the author of three previous prose collections, including Lift Your Right Arm and Autobiography Without Words, both published by Pelekinesis. Cherches is a native of Brooklyn, New York.

About the publisher

Pelekinesis is a small book publishing company focusing on the development of independent authors and artists by creatively embracing the evolving publishing paradigm and utilizing modern distribution platforms. Full catalog and press material can be found at http://www.pelekinesis.com

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