Apocalypse Then

Praise

“The power of DeMarinis’ deliciously disconcerting short stories is generated by his card-shark ability to transform the realistic into the bizarre. Loaded with startlingly vivid details, unusually skewed psychological insights, and ravishingly poetic apocalyptic intimations, DeMarinis’ cunning, cuttingly funny short stories track the psychic damage done by war and the chilling shadow of nuclear weapons even as they celebrate our rising, however unsteadily, from the ashes.” –Donna Seaman, American Library Association


“However similar the existential suffering of his characters, DeMarinis expertly probes the contours of their condition.You simply can’t move your eyes from the page.” –Mark Smirnoff, New York Times Book Review