The Story of Two Men Walking Across the Room to the Sofa and What Happened on the Way There To Change Both Their Lives   or: How I Beat My Father to Death with a Bat.

This 52 page book tells a violent short story using collaged graphics and text. It is 4.25" x 5.5" in size, b&w xeroxed, and saddle stapled with translucent cover stock.

The Story of Two Men... is in the Printed Matter Summer 1996 catalogue! Write or stop by their store and ask for it in person at 77 Wooster St NYC 10012. They've got an amazing stock of artist's books.

Rather than take our word about how great we think this book is, take a look at several scanned images from it and hear what a few respected reviewers had to say.

I'd already passed my possition my expected place on the overstuffed couch and followed him past the coffee table toward his destination

This is a special mini edition of InDigest with a really long title - I’ll just abbreviate it to Beat My Father to Death. I think this one may be entirely without all the regular contributors to InDigest. I can certainly see what gives InDigest such cool design. This book is pure design with pages of xeroxes, collages, blurred images, and type. It’s things like this that make me wish I had a "book arts" category in Factsheet Five, so if you’re into that, this is a fine example. R. Seth Freiedman Factsheet Five #51

The full title of this text & graphic collage novel is The Story of Two Men Walking Across the Room to the Sofa and What Happened on the Way There to Change Both Their Lives. What happened is violent, and told a micro-second at a time in understated, flat sentences and surrealistic graphics that work as well together for the full course of the narrative as any I’ve ever come across. Bob Grumman Taproot Reviews #5

he is momentarily bewildered hears why have I not taken a seat his talking trails off from here on there is no scary music just the clatter of the film projector running in slow motion black and white tight zoom he begins to turn counterclockwise I can just now see the white of his left

This is a collage of text and visuals that may, or may not, be related, and which gestalt into a strange coherency about a son who beat his father with a bat until he couldn’t beat him anymore. At first I was hesitant to even deal with this, but after looking at it closely, I was amazed at how powerful it really was, and the way it strangely fit together, like a three dimensional puzzle that doesn’t make any sense until it’s all assembled. This is someone to look out for, especially if he’s creeping up behind you. Oberc Taproot Reviews #6

You can get your own copy of The Story of Two Men... in trade for something really cool that you made yourself, or a few bucks if you're not into making cool stuff. Just think: for what you'd pay to get a crummy hamburger value meal you can get an enduring work of post-modern literature, and as a bonus it won't clog your colon!
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