Altmann's TongueBrian EvensonLabel: Bison BooksDescription: Evenson has created a fascinating mysterious and austere prose set in scenes that attain the precision of staged burlesque. Through the sparse economy of the plot and settings Evenson's great moral sensibility is glimpsed behind the carnival mask of apparently frivolous murder.-Seattle WeeklyBrian Evenson has added an O. Henry Award–winning short story Two Brothers to this controversial book and a new afterword in which he describes the troubling aftermath of the book's publication in 1994.
