Slow Guillotine by Rivera-Dundas, Teo

Slow Guillotine

Winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in FictionSlow Guillotine follows three broke weirdos whose collective desire to...
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Author: Teo Rivera-Dundas
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Language: English
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Slow Guillotine by Rivera-Dundas, Teo

Slow Guillotine

$71.99 $37.63

Slow Guillotine

$71.99 $37.63
Author: Teo Rivera-Dundas
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction

Slow Guillotine follows three broke weirdos whose collective desire to make and think about art is constantly interrupted by their art-industry-adjacent minimum-wage jobs. Throughout the novel, the three friends' day jobs in a failing independent bookstore, a sterile gallery in downtown Manhattan, and miscellaneous living rooms across the Long Island birthday-party-clown circuit interweave with their attempts to come to terms with their precarity, gender-dysphoric embodiment, and the floating dream of collective liberation.

Spanning one year and told through an obsessive first-person present tense, Slow Guillotine brings the bildungsroman structure through the autofictional looking glass, questioning how "coming of age" could be feasible in a society of debtors, wage laborers, and renters.



Author: Teo Rivera-Dundas
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 03/01/2026
Pages: 220
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781496247315

About the Author

Teo Rivera-Dundas is a writer in western Massachusetts. His work has received support from the Wassaic Project, Anderson Center at Tower View, California Institute of the Arts, and the University of California, San Diego. His writing has appeared in Gulf Coast, Meridian, Tupelo Quarterly, and Desperate Literature's annual Eleven Stories anthology, among other publications.


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