| Novel Explosives | |
| Author: | Jim Gauer |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Philosophical fiction, postmodernism |
| Publisher: | Zerogram Press |
| Pub Date: | 2016 |
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| Pages: | 720 |
| Isbn: | 978-1-953409-02-7 |
Novel Explosives by Jim Gauer (Zerogram Press, 2016) is a novel that tells three interrelated stories set in Los Angeles, Ciudad Juárez, and Guanajuato.
The novel is named after a thermobaric weapon introduced by the US Marine Corps during the 2003 Invasion of Iraq called a "Novel Explosive" (SMAW-NE).
There are many references to the poet Fernando Pessoa.
Jeff Bursey writing for Numéro Cinq described the novel as having Quentin Tarantino-like action sequences paired with metafictional flourishes.[1] [2] [3]