‘Since 1966, Mc Elroy’s novels have astonished and delighted by their brilliant wit, intelligence, and style.’Washington Post Book World’Mc Elroy is rightly compared with Gaddis and Pynchon.’Harper’s Magazine The Iraq War, two platform divers, a California family, and within that family an intimacy that open the larger stories more deeply still. Cannonball continues in Joseph Mc Elroy’s tradition of intricately woven story lines.Joseph Mc Elroy is the recipient of the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Ingram Merrill foundations, as well as the NEA. He lives in New York City.