The Dimensions of a Cave, Greg Jackson
The Dimensions of a Cave, Greg Jackson
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The Dimensions of a Cave

Author: Greg Jackson

Narrator: George Newbern

Unabridged: 17 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/24/2023

Synopsis

A virtuoso journey into networks of power, our embroilment with new technologies, and the dangers of corruption, by an electrifying debut novelist.When the investigative reporter Quentin Jones’s story about covert military interrogation practices in the Desert War is buried, he is spurred to dig deeper, and he unravels a trail that leads to VIRTUE: cutting-edge technology that simulates reality during interrogation.As the shadowy labyrinths of governmental corruption unfurl and tighten around him, unnerving links to his protégé Bruce―who, like Joseph Conrad’s Kurtz, disappeared into the war several years earlier―keep emerging.Greg Jackson's The Dimensions of a Cave is a virtuoso journey into networks of power, our embroilment with new technologies, and the dangers of corruption. It explores our drive toward war, violence, and venality, placing humanity and idealism under the spotlight.

About Greg Jackson

Greg Jackson is author of Prodigals: Stories, for which he received the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 award and the Bard Fiction Prize. In 2017, he was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. His fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, Tin House, Vice, Conjunctions, Virginia Quarterly Review, the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Guardian, among other places.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Branden on August 28, 2023

The Dimensions of a Cave starts with a poem and reads like one. It's dripping noir style, with flecks of Hunter S Thompson, or William S. Burroughs. The luxurious descriptions, and freeflowing style reminds me of Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, which Woolf called not a novel but a "playpoem". The Dimens......more

Goodreads review by Adam on June 06, 2024

After sitting on completing "The Dimensions of a Cave" and letting it really sink in, I think the best way to start a review is with one of my favorite quotes (probably have 50 marked), that even out of context conveys the beauty and phantasmal nature of the book. We met each other with quiet eyes. I......more

Goodreads review by Al Truscott on January 08, 2024

Greg Jackson’s first novel, The Dimensions of a Cave, explores the nature of consciousness through Quentin Jones, a reporter for the Beacon (a stand-in for the Washington Post). He becomes entangled in the rabbit-hole of a government program known as VIRTUE. Initially created to interrogate suspects......more

Goodreads review by Brian on November 29, 2023

Can this guy write a simple sentence: one that doesn't feel like it's been over-polished into near incomprehensibility, then held up for universal approval? OK, I couldn't bear to read too much of it, so this is based on limited exposure ... A symptom of the debut novelist?......more

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