Finalist for the Flann O'Brien Award
for Innovative Fiction
for Innovative Fiction
"It gave me energy...We join forces."
-JOHN BERGER
"Readers who favor either the political dystopias of Orwell or the
zombie-apocalypse works of Max Brooks will be interested in what Leed has to say.
Partisans is part of Atelier26’s Samizdat Series. The term 'Samizdat' gives the book a sense
of dangerous urgency. During the Communist era, dissidents clandestinely printed, published,
and distributed censored publications (or Samizdat) throughout The Soviet Union,
its satellite nations, and abroad. Vladimir Putin can choose to ignore Samizdat existed,
but its importance is undeniable — and Leed’s book points to a renewal of the practice.
... Part fable, and an all-out a plea for the love of good stories and the talent to
tell them, Partisans is thoughtful and, unfortunately, relevant."
--NEW PAGES
"Leed was a mad one, like the rest of us. Unlike us, his gifts were very nearly divine."
--V. Kasden
zombie-apocalypse works of Max Brooks will be interested in what Leed has to say.
Partisans is part of Atelier26’s Samizdat Series. The term 'Samizdat' gives the book a sense
of dangerous urgency. During the Communist era, dissidents clandestinely printed, published,
and distributed censored publications (or Samizdat) throughout The Soviet Union,
its satellite nations, and abroad. Vladimir Putin can choose to ignore Samizdat existed,
but its importance is undeniable — and Leed’s book points to a renewal of the practice.
... Part fable, and an all-out a plea for the love of good stories and the talent to
tell them, Partisans is thoughtful and, unfortunately, relevant."
--NEW PAGES
"Leed was a mad one, like the rest of us. Unlike us, his gifts were very nearly divine."
--V. Kasden
A lost work by the mysterious writer Geoffrey Peerson Leed, Partisans describes a brutal war in an unspecified past, as well as Leed's struggle to survive in a paranoiac future riven by totalitarianism and social decay. The book is presented in nine parts according to Leed's designs as indicated in manuscripts discovered after his disappearance. Everywhere at its heart, Partisans speaks boldly to our contemporary moment: a time of unbridled surveillance, constant war, and maddening technological upheaval.
"Always, everything we see challenges us to understand.
The extent to which we take up the challenge by our own wits and without resorting
to prior interpretations is the extent to which we escape oppression."
"He felt that he had no life to lose. He was no proper self and therefore no proper death,
symbolical or actual, could await. He'd let slip somewhere, or had had torn from him,
the I of identity. He was a blowing dust that got in under doors."
"Still, even in the quiet of your room you face the onslaught. Endlessly you work
to clear your vision against the day's overcrowding. You seek a single sheer coherent
narrative of thought, the prolonged extension of a tone amid the broken broadcast noises,
antic and ever-changing. You school yourself in history. You labor to remember: underlying
the current complexity is woeful oversimplification. Meanwhile you will know
the truth by the serene simplicity of its surface."
--G.P. Leed
The extent to which we take up the challenge by our own wits and without resorting
to prior interpretations is the extent to which we escape oppression."
"He felt that he had no life to lose. He was no proper self and therefore no proper death,
symbolical or actual, could await. He'd let slip somewhere, or had had torn from him,
the I of identity. He was a blowing dust that got in under doors."
"Still, even in the quiet of your room you face the onslaught. Endlessly you work
to clear your vision against the day's overcrowding. You seek a single sheer coherent
narrative of thought, the prolonged extension of a tone amid the broken broadcast noises,
antic and ever-changing. You school yourself in history. You labor to remember: underlying
the current complexity is woeful oversimplification. Meanwhile you will know
the truth by the serene simplicity of its surface."
--G.P. Leed
M. Allen Cunningham's Presentation Recorded by Market Optimization Bureau Agents:
At a recent meeting with fellow members of the Literary Resistance, M. Allen Cunningham presented the work of the vanished writer G.P. Leed and read from Leed's PARTISANS, discovered after Leed's disappearance and edited by Cunningham for publication. It has come to our attention that agents of the Market Optimization Bureau were in the audience and recorded the events. We have secured a rough copy of that audio file. Though the MOB intention was to document the night's many infractions, the result is a living record of one evening's act of resistance, which we gladly share:
At a recent meeting with fellow members of the Literary Resistance, M. Allen Cunningham presented the work of the vanished writer G.P. Leed and read from Leed's PARTISANS, discovered after Leed's disappearance and edited by Cunningham for publication. It has come to our attention that agents of the Market Optimization Bureau were in the audience and recorded the events. We have secured a rough copy of that audio file. Though the MOB intention was to document the night's many infractions, the result is a living record of one evening's act of resistance, which we gladly share:
M. Allen Cunningham is the author of the novels The Green Age of Asher Witherow (a #1 IndieNext Pick) and Lost Son (about the life and work of Rainer Maria Rilke), the illustrated, limited-edition short story collection Date of Disappearance and two volumes of nonfiction, The Honorable Obscurity Handbook and The Flickering Page: The Reading Experience in Digital Times. He lives and works in the Northwest Territory.
G.P. Leed lived and worked in the Northwest Territory.
G.P. Leed lived and worked in the Northwest Territory.
Partisans
LITERATURE/FICTION
ISBN: 978-0-9893023-4-0
262 pages / 8.5" x 5.5" trade paperback
LITERATURE/FICTION
ISBN: 978-0-9893023-4-0
262 pages / 8.5" x 5.5" trade paperback
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