Maze of Blood, by Marly Youmans

Maze of Blood, by Marly Youmans

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Maze of Blood, by Marly Youmans

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Begin with what seems the end of things--how Conall Weaver lifts a gun to his head. And now dive backward into the labyrinthine worlds of home, where Conall is the center, into the maze of love, where Conall seeks and strives with his soul-mate, and into the maze of imagination, with its population of weapon-wielding heroes and local-color Texans...and then on, into the maze of childhood, where time seems illusion and all the threads and stories start. Red for the blood of frontiersmen and Indians, Conall thought, red for the blood of proven heroes and mother, the martyr of Cross Plains. Maze for the looping coils of a snake that ended in a rattle that shook out revolutionary warning: don t tread on me! Maze for veins of blood. Maze for family. In Conall Weaver, the mundane world and the wonders of the imagination collide and shoot out sparks. Inspired by the life of pulp writer Robert E. Howard, MAZE OF BLOOD explores the roots of story and the compulsions and conflicts of the heart in a Southern landscape.

Maze of Blood, by Marly Youmans

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1145144 in Books
• Published on: 2015-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.80" h x 1.00" w x 5.80" l, 1.00 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 224 pages

Maze of Blood, by Marly Youmans

Review Favorite Books of 2015, Books and Culture MagazineThis is one of the strangest books I have read in a long while, and also one of the best. --Wilson's Bookmarks, Christianity Today, 11/2015Youmans' language is exquisite. She is clearly and obviously a poet, and her skill at choosing simple words to evoke complex pictures is well-served here....Maze of Blood is a transformative work.... -Mark Finn, Robert E. Howard biographer, at Candy Skulls, 11/2015...we get is a wealth of stories based on timeless figures both real and imagined, along with amazing descriptions of nature - all this on top of the plot itself...bedecked with magical insights and sparkling prose. -Bookloons 11/2015 Getting past the well-known irony of Robert E. Howard's life, Marly Youmans takes an uncommonly humane approach, uniting both halves of the pulp-fiction legend to show how dissatisfaction and heartbreak inevitably get tangled up in artistry. -Jeff Sypeck, author of Becoming Charlemagne and Looking Up, at Quid Plura? 11/2015Marly Youmans continues to put out superb novels. Early in 2015 I read her excellent Glimmerglass, a book about life and inspiration. Very late in 2015 I read her latest, Maze of Blood, which is naturally getting good reviews and you should buy two copies, give away one and read the other. --novelist Scott Bailey at Six Words for a HatMarly Youmans is a great writer. Her prose is immaculate. ----Laird BarronMarly Youmans is a novelist and poet out of sync with the times but in tune with the ages. ----First ThingsI cannot recommend an author more than Marly Youmans, whose fantastic prose is absolutely gorgeous and haunting. ----Seb Doubinsky

From the Back Cover "Maze of Blood is a haunting tale, but one so beautifully crafted by Youmans, unraveling in short chapters like prose poems constructed from spare dialogue, the dusty Texas landscape, a sudden flash of vibrant nature, and the sweep of a starlight sky... A haunting tale of dark obsessions and transcendent creative fire, rendered brilliantly in Youmans' richly poetic prose." --Midori Snyder, award-winning author

About the Author Author of fourteen books, Marly Youmans has been called the best-kept secret among contemporary American writers (Books & Culture). Her recent novels are GLIMMERGLASS ("resonant, beautiful"--Margo Lanagan) and A DEATH AT THE WHITE CAMELLIA ORPHANAGE ("controlled lyrical passion...the finest, and the truest period novel I've read in years"--Lucius Shepard). Recent poetry books include a long narrative, THALIAD ("mesmerizing...a work of genius"--Lee Smith), and two collections, THE FOLIATE HEAD and THE THRONE OF PSYCHE.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Read this excellent book! By 7000 Feet MAZE OF BLOODBy Marly Youmans(Macon, Georgia, 2015, Mercer University Press.)MAZE OF BLOOD, by Marly Youmans, is a book to be savored. It is a book that digs deep, with every word of the spare and exquisite prose carrying level upon level of meaning. It is a book that encourages, even requires, both thought and feeling in every line. Though it will capture the reader immediately and never let go, it’s not a book to be taken lightly. MAZE OF BLOOD is a book to read over and over again.As she did in GLIMMERGLASS, Youmans twists time and space to explore the juncture of creativity between the material world and the spiritual. This is the interface Youmans returns to here, revealing the very essence of creativity through the story of one man’s all too brief life.Conall Weaver, the protagonist, fights to escape the physical and emotional confines of his life in a small Texas town. He writes fiction and fantasy, leading a life of the mind that nobody else understands or respects, even though he earns a decent living at it. Sere, hot, flat and empty, Texas itself becomes a metaphor for the human condition, something that constrains and torments the creative soul.Youmans draws the reader into the tension between the restrictions of the physical environment and the spiritual yearnings of the mind and heart. The reader is left to determine if the creative spark needs both to catch fire.This is a beautiful and important book. Clive Hicks-Jenkins’ illustrations show the essential whimsy and joy that permeate Youmans’ universe even in the midst of human turmoil.Marly Youmans and I are of course vaguely related. We’re first cousins generations removed by 500 years and 3000 miles, and have never met IRL. I’d like to. Her work is splendid.Claire YoumansAuthor of The Toki-Girl and the Sparrow-Boy and The Toki-Girl and the Sparrow-Boy, Book Two: Chasing Dreams (American I Publishing, Big Bear Lake, CA; 2014 and 2015 respectively) both available on Amazon and everywhere else.http://www.tokigirlandsparrowboy.comclaireyoumansauthor@gmail.com

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A Shot to the Senses By Suzanne M. Brazil This review originally appeared on Blogcritics.orgNamed as one of their Favorite Books of 2015 at Books and Culture Magazine, Maze of Blood (Mercer University Press, 2015), is a visceral shot to the senses and a fine filament tugging at the imagination that examines the results of thwarted dreams and desires in the life of a young writer. Set in rural Texas in the 1930’s, Marly Youmans uses language as both scalpel and wand to conjure a place and time as real as the abandoned oil wells and as otherworldly as the magical lands of the great epic poems.Excerpt: What did you need of hell when you had Texas? Why, he had the whole weight of the Lone Star State on his back like some kind of crazy sheriff’s badge . . . all those Texans with their tidy lives, their distrust of stories not like their own. Everything might have been different if he had gone away, but he hadn’t, somehow couldn’t go. And yet he couldn’t bear to become the little thing people here wanted him to be. Well, there was no use festering over it. He wouldn’t be small. They couldn’t make him.To open a book by Youmans is to leap from a cloud and ride the thermals to places unknown yet somehow familiar. Her novels follow no formula or conventional plot twists and still evoke a shared humanity that is weirdly comforting. Each carefully chosen word strikes a precise note and traps the reader in the orbit of whatever tale Youmans cares to spin.Based on real-life pulp writer and creator of Conan the BarbarianMaze of Blood, Robert E. Howard, Conall Weaver is born into this landscape and into the silent battle of wills between his sickly mother and country doctor father. As Conall grows up, and his mother succumbs to the full effects of tuberculosis, Youmans unwinds her tale backward unveiling the birth and shaping of an artist amidst unlucky circumstances.His sense of duty to his consumptive mother is a yoke he can’t escape, and his father isn’t strong enough or determined enough to rescue him. His influential mother is fundamental to his growth as a storyteller and less than enthusiastic about his pursuit of a life to call his own.Conall’s writing continues to develop while he battles his own awkwardness in romance and the harsh realities of the publishing world. Fulfillment of his hopes and dreams proves elusive, and the reader feels his hunger. With insightful, illuminating illustrations by frequent collaborator Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Youmans’ prose evokes the physical sensation of Conall’s longing, of his artist’s sensibilities and his valiant battle to be himself in the land of oil workers and ranchers.His survival depends on living the life he wants and leaving the life he has, neither of which seem possible. Yet Youmans ultimately celebrates Conall’s life as a joyous birth of creativity from mysterious sources. If you’ve ever felt out of place or trapped by circumstances, Conall’s life as a determined writer in the dry Texas scrublands will make you thirst for lost dreams and the deep breath of liberty to pursue what you love. And Marly Youmans’ prose will make you wish she was telling your story.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Youmans transported me with her opulent yarn weaving By Lady Rouchswalwe Finding a splendid pearl in an oyster while combing the beach. Uncorking a bottle of wine, then being stunned by the enticing aroma and promise-fulfilling flavor. That's what turning the pages of this book written by Marly Youmans was like for me.The yarn she weaves is arresting. Once I finished the first chapter, I had to close the book for a bit and simply lie there, relishing the prospect of the journey that lay ahead. Indeed, there were parts of the story told with words so beautifully written they made my heart ache and others that found me blinking in confusion as I finished the chapter and found myself back in the present.After reading the last line, I took a deep breath, and turned to the beginning again because I'd realized something. Yes, it's that kind of book. And now that I've had a taste of Youmans's exquisite yarn weaving, I fully intend to engage with her other works of wonder.

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