I am Not Jackson Pollock - Softcover

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"A spellbinding look at the human lot through iconic eyes . . . With a deadpan simplicity, he weaves the stories as if editing film, knitting his plot not so much around his characters, though cumulative psychological revelation . . . Haskell may not be Jackson Pollock, but he is a poet, and sees the world keenly." (Sunday Herald)

"Audacious first collection of stories. Haskell picked subjects we think we know and further anatomises them with uncanny seeming precision. His prose is taut and mythopoetic, but playful, too. Haskell is not only a writer in full command of his own stories, but other people's too." (Independant on Sunday)

"A remarkable collection of short stories from the author of American Purgatorio, examining the relationship between art and reality and featuring a mind-boggling cast of characters, including Orson Welles, Joan of Arc, John Keats and Janet Leigh." (Financial Times)

"They read more as scenarios in which he projects what's wrong with him on to you. This curious, elliptical book can be profound, but then in the next instant becomes York Notes for weirdos." (Guardian)