Mangled Hands
Johnny Stanton
Introduction and interview by George Salis
April 11, 2021
ISBN 9780578859422 / Paperback / 310 pages / $17.99

Johnny Stanton's hallucinatory, darkly comic novel about dislocation, obsession, and the fragility of identity. Moving through surreal episodes and fractured perceptions, the book follows characters caught in cycles of damage, where violence and absurdity coexist with bleak humor. Stanton's prose is jagged and dreamlike, using distortion and repetition to probe how people endure, adapt, or unravel when confronted with a world that seems fundamentally hostile.

With a new introduction and an interview with Johnny Stanton and his wife, the poet Elinor Nauen, conducted by George Salis.

"Johnny Stanton's Mangled Hands is such an oddity that it confounds description or comparison. . . . Mangled Hands is so unusual and original that many readers with a serious interest in fiction will find it liberating."
— Washington Post, October 20, 1985

With a new introduction and an interview with Johnny Stanton and his wife, the poet Elinor Nauen, by George Salis.