Rip It Up Natalli Amato As Wendell Berry writes in

As Wendell Berry writes in his preface

in all manner of poses--catlike and humanlike--expressing tenderness

Can Rowan and Sloane dig themselves out of a game of graves

the experience and texture of Russian society have become difficult to grasp

Rip It Up Natalli Amato As Wendell Berry writes inThe Akutagawa prize winning novel by Kou Machida, Japan's most outlandish and inventive author. Rip It Up is the first ever English translation of Kou Machida's award winning novel, an undertaking over five years in the making and the inaugural title of Inpatient Press's translation imprint Mercurial Editions. Set in a kaleidoscopic hyperreal Japan circa Y2K, Rip It Up catalogues the misdeeds and misgivings of a down and out wannabe debonair who ekes