" Johnny Stanton 's Mangled Hands is such an oddity that it confounds description or comparison. . . . It] is so unusual and original that many readers with a serious interest in fiction will find it liberating." - Bob Halliday , The Washington Post Excerpt from the back cover of the original 1985 Sun & Moon Press edition:: "For years, Manged Hands was passed among New York poets and fiction writers in manuscript form, and its author, Johnny Stanton , developed an underground reputation as one of the most gifted writers of the generation directly influenced by the New York Poets. . . . Mangled Hands stands between Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude in style and spirit."