Your cart is currently empty!
Mason’s Jar
Sales and Market Bullets
- STEPHEN KING MEETS CORMAC McCARTHY: “A gripping work of speculative fiction set in a spirited landscape that’s often neglected or ignored in Canadian literature. Jantunen skillfully compels readers to both empathize with and loathe the people who inhabit this dystopian realm. It’s a thrilling novel about outcasts and survivors navigating a harsh world, much in the same vein as works by Cormac McCarthy and Stephen King.” — Waubgeshig Rice, bestselling author of Moon of the Crusted Snow on Savage Gerry
- AWARDS: Jantunen was shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Cipher, and No Quarter was nominated for the PWA Shamus Award and longlisted for the ReLit Award.
- TRENDING TOPICS: Set against a backdrop of the housing, mental health, opioid, and climate crises increasingly affecting so many communities, Mason’s Jar upends the classic western revenge tale to create a relentlessly entertaining vision of a man, and a world, teetering on the brink, only to find hope in the unlikeliest of places.
Audience
- Horror readers and online horror fan community
- Fans of the previous books in the author’s Tildon Chronicles
- Fans of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
- Readers of Roberto Bolaño
“A grimy, dripping fever dream freshly splattered across the cracked windshield of Ontario’s sputtering future.” — Andrew F. Sullivan, author of The Marigold and The Handyman Method
“I’ve been in awe of writer John Jantunen’s immense talent for some time now. With Mason’s Jar, he has joined the ranks of Cormac McCarthy and Michael Punke. It’s a work created by a towering talent of uncommon vision. He’s reached a place of rarity — a place occupied by genius. What really struck me was that it was an intelligent book written by an intelligent writer for intelligent readers. He played the notes that weren’t there, as Miles Davis said.” — Les Edgerton, author of Hard Times, Adrenaline Junkie and others
“Hope is an underlying theme throughout the novel, and change, after all “the line between being rich and poor in this country is very, very fragile. It’s very precarious.” And anyone can end up on the other side of that line, and when the balance tips, all manner of nightmares can materialize, as Jantunen aptly illustrates in Mason’s Jar.” — Bay Today
“I’ve been in awe of writer John Jantunen’s immense talent for some time now. With Mason’s Jar, he has joined the ranks of Cormac McCarthy and Michael Punke. It’s a work created by a towering talent of uncommon vision. He’s reached a place of rarity — a place occupied by genius. What really struck me was that it was an intelligent book written by an intelligent writer for intelligent readers. He played the notes that weren’t there, as Miles Davis said.” — Les Edgerton, author of Hard Times, Adrenaline Junkie and others
“Hope is an underlying theme throughout the novel, and change, after all “the line between being rich and poor in this country is very, very fragile. It’s very precarious.” And anyone can end up on the other side of that line, and when the balance tips, all manner of nightmares can materialize, as Jantunen aptly illustrates in Mason’s Jar.” — Bay Today
There are no awards found for this book.
