About the Book
A novella. Introduction by John Crowley.
A Confederate veteran revisits a haunted battleground outside of
Petersburg, Virginia. Many years later, his great-grandson returns
obsessively to a mansion (now a museum) in southern Vermont, the scene
of an unsolved murder. In the late eighteenth century, in eastern
Connecticut, a separatist minister receives a visit from a flying
saucer, while, coincidentally, a young officer takes the stand at his
own court-martial in 1919. Not a hundred and fifty years further on, a
beautiful young woman self-destructs in New York State, while two
hundred miles and a mere generation away, an old woman dances on a cold
Rhode Island beach.
In Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance, Paul Park braids these and
other seemingly mutually exclusive strands, and the resulting text, part memoir and part fiction, could serve as a “last will and testament” not only for Park himself, but also for John Crowley and Elizabeth Hand,
old friends who, through a series of oversights, have guided it towards
publication...
Though only its fictional parts can be verified, PS Publishing is
delighted to present this bizarre masterpiece in as complete a form as
current circumstances allow.
