The Dimensions of a Cave -- Greg Jackson, Hardcover

A virtuoso journey into networks of power, our embroilment with new technologies, and the dangers of corruption, by an electrifying debut novelist.

When the investigative reporter Quentin Jones's story about covert military interrogation practices in the Desert War is buried, he is spurred to dig deeper, and he unravels a trail that leads to VIRTUE: cutting-edge technology that simulates reality during interrogation.

As the shadowy labyrinths of governmental corruption unfurl and tighten around him, unnerving links to his protégé Bruce--who, like Joseph Conrad's Kurtz, disappeared into the war several years earlier--keep emerging.

Greg Jackson's The Dimensions of a Cave is a virtuoso journey into networks of power, our embroilment with new technologies, and the dangers of corruption. It explores our drive toward war, violence, and venality, placing humanity and idealism under the spotlight.

Author: Greg Jackson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 10/24/2023
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9780374298494

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/01/2023 pg. 6
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2023
Publishers Weekly 08/21/2023
Booklist 09/01/2023 pg. 38

About the Author
Greg Jackson is the author of the story collection Prodigals, for which he was included in the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 and received the Bard Fiction Prize. In 2017, he was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. His fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, Tin House, Vice, Conjunctions, Virginia Quarterly Review, the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Guardian, among other places. The Dimensions of a Cave is his first novel.