An Honest Ghost

Rick Whitaker's debut novel, An Honest Ghost, consists entirely of sentences appropriated from over 500 books. Whitaker limited himself to using 300 words per book (in accordance with Fair Use); never taking two sentences together; and never making any changes, even to punctuation. An index includes all attributions. The experience of acknowledging each sentence as literary artifact, combined with the imagined accretion of books that built An Honest Ghost, deftly mirrors the burgeoning nostalgia in the narrator’s voice and, most fittingly, in the careful reader’s heart.

• Author
• Rick Whitaker

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 150

• Publisher
• Jaded Ibis Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781937543389

• Genres
• fiction

• Release date
• 2013