The Glacier

“Jeff Wood’s cinematic anti-story and artwork… binds the genres of novel, screenplay, and poetry in a collage of horror and humming imagery. His work hangs in the balance of past, future, and apocalyptic present, weaving the themes of Midwestern suburbia, collective theater, disturbed nature, and transcendental experience.”
—The Rumpus

“Rendered partly as prose poem—paragraphs strung down the pages like a necklace—and partly as sharply delivered play-script… this novel highlights the hollowness of rapid suburban growth at the turn of the millennium… Gorgeously and urgently written.”
—Library Journal, starred review

“Despite having the look, feel, and pace of a script, The Glacier reads very much like a novel, even as it leverages the screenplay format to allow for abrupt jump cuts and shifting angles, producing a 360-degree view of a world that might otherwise appear flat on the pages of a traditional work of prose fiction. One of the primordial pleasures for many readers is the sensation of the self disappearing during the reading process—the feeling that when we’re really, truly immersed in a book, a type of annihilation of self naturally occurs. In this sense, Wood’s book may suggest that losing sight of ourselves might not always be a bad thing.”
—The Grist

“Call Jeff Wood’s The Glacier what you will—a novel-in-screenplay-form; a prose poem on the themes of death, suburbia, and the cruel symmetries of cosmic time; a surreal prophecy from America’s anguished heartland—it will remain what it was always aiming to be, and that’s one of the most indelible and visionary movies you’ve ever seen.”
—Jon Raymond, author of Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, and Meek’s Cutoff