RUT Rut is a wild and original novel from Scott Phillips, which takes readers to the Rocky Mountains circa 2050, where the once thriving burg of Gower is about to become a 21st-century ghost town. Thanks to extreme weather and plenty of toxic waste, the skiers and celebrities are gone, along with the money and the veneer of civilization. What’s left? Old-time religion and brand-new pharmaceuticals, bad food and warm beer, mutated animals and small-town gossip. Can the town survive? We’ll see. Rights Information Publisher: Concord Free Press Territory: North America Rights Available: Translation; English Language (UK/AU/NZ); Film/TV Reviews: "If you took the tender portrait of a town in decline in Richard Russo’s Empire Falls, mixed it with Kurt Vonnegut at his most satirical and biting, then sprinkled in a few grams of meth and a generous shot of piss from a syphilitic hobo into the resulting solution, you’d have a drink that could almost put you on your ass as fast as Rut sure-as-shit will." –Spinetingler Magazine Blurbs: “Scott Phillips holds up to the light a dark crystal ball in which swirls our future. You're not going to like what you see, but you're going to love this book. Rut is a hell of a good read from a hell of a good writer who knows better than anybody how to elicit a poisoned laugh.” —Benjamin Percy, author of The Wilding and Refresh, Refresh “Part of me would love to live in the near-future world Scott Phillips has imagined in Rut, but only a little part. The rest of me is happy just to read about this, um, direction in which we humans might be headed. Another great novel from one of our best.” —Tom Franklin, author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter Purchase at Amazon.com

RUT

Rut is a wild and original novel from Scott Phillips, which takes readers to the Rocky Mountains circa 2050, where the once thriving burg of Gower is about to become a 21st-century ghost town. Thanks to extreme weather and plenty of toxic waste, the skiers and celebrities are gone, along with the money and the veneer of civilization. What’s left? Old-time religion and brand-new pharmaceuticals, bad food and warm beer, mutated animals and small-town gossip. Can the town survive? We’ll see.

Rights Information

Publisher: Concord Free Press

Territory: North America

Rights Available: Translation; English Language (UK/AU/NZ); Film/TV

Reviews: "If you took the tender portrait of a town in decline in Richard Russo’s Empire Falls, mixed it with Kurt Vonnegut at his most satirical and biting, then sprinkled in a few grams of meth and a generous shot of piss from a syphilitic hobo into the resulting solution, you’d have a drink that could almost put you on your ass as fast as Rut sure-as-shit will." –Spinetingler Magazine

Blurbs: “Scott Phillips holds up to the light a dark crystal ball in which swirls our future. You're not going to like what you see, but you're going to love this book. Rut is a hell of a good read from a hell of a good writer who knows better than anybody how to elicit a poisoned laugh.” —Benjamin Percy, author of The Wilding and Refresh, Refresh “Part of me would love to live in the near-future world Scott Phillips has imagined in Rut, but only a little part. The rest of me is happy just to read about this, um, direction in which we humans might be headed. Another great novel from one of our best.” —Tom Franklin, author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

Purchase at Amazon.com