A new novel from Eric Barnes | June 2013

"Elegantly constructed and lovingly, tenderly, savagely written...
the most harrowing portrait of American boys careening into manhood that I've ever read.
And the truest." - Benjamin Whitmer

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Also by Eric Barnes.

Shimmer: A quiet and intense novel
about the people and friends
at the heart of a lie.

A novel about a conflicted hero,
and an ethical trap.

Darkly comic,
unpredictable, it’s a novel about
people and money,
about friendships and sex.

Robbie Case is a star CEO.
Robbie Case is a millionaire. Robbie Case has a secret.

Shimmer is a story of self-deception and the perils of arrogance.
A story about the commitments we make to friends and family and
the strangers we look past every day.

One man, one company,
one disastrous lie.

"Case’s slow but accelerating downward spiral drives the narrative...."
-- Publisher's Weekly

"One is reminded in Barnes’ language and locution of Don DeLillo's scalpel-sharp delineation of American corporate culture and paranoia, and of David Foster Wallace's penetration into the heart of the relationship between human consciousness and rapidly changing technologies."
-- Fredric Koeppel, The Commercial Appeal

"Robbie is one of those engagingly conflicted heroes who comes along from time to time."
-- Booklist

"A remarkable character study, unflinchingly probing the psyche of its flawed but compelling protagonist."
-- Benjamin Whitmer, INDenverTimes