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The Devil Is a Southpaw 2025

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The Devil Is a Southpaw is a 2025 novel written by Brandon Hobson. This postmodern, postcolonial, magical realism novel follows an unreliable narrator named Milton Muleborn. The story uses a metafiction narrative technique through a fictional character called Brandon H., who found a manuscript titled The Devil Is a Southpaw by Milton Muleborn, whom he knew years ago. Brandon presents this to readers in a foreword.

The novel was shortlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and listed for the PEN Faulkner Award. Selected portions were published in Mcsweeney's, Conjunctions, and Southwest Review.

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Publisher
Ecco Press (US)
ISBN
9780063259652
Format
Print (hardback & paperback)

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