"So, in summary, you lost your heart to a knife throwing lesbian circus clown doubling as a time-travelling secret agent and you left a career-track PhD in its late stages under the supervision of the greatest physicist of the modern era to join a travelling circus? Is that what you’re asking me to believe?"
"In short, yes."
How did it come to this? Is there any place for a novel such as this? This book will upset many people, which is no bad thing. Hysterical times call forth the hysterical response. We've seen it before but it's been a long time since a book was banned. Can we do it now? This is a novel that slashes viciously at every sacred cow, that rips contemptuously and gleefully into the pompously inflated balloons of hot-aired righteousness. In a parallel world, every form of correctness is cut to ribbons, mocked and derided.
If this dirty little story does its job it will offend and/or entertain every reader who picks it up. With the bookshelves of 2022 sagging under the weight of empowering tales from the right-on worthy, here is the antidote. Here is the snake bite. Take both in vigorous quantities…you need it.
It's a picaresque tale of one young man's journey through multiple realities like a 21st century Gulliver. Naked Lunch goes to the circus. Twin stories unfolding in parallel realities invite the reader to question their own understanding of the world in which they live. Questions of identity and transformation are deployed with comic effect to dismantle the foundations of our belief in ourselves and the certainties we all rely on to get by in a complicated life. Am I who I think I am?
Oh, and it's very funny and rather weird...after all, it's a circus! Be entertained. Be outraged. Start a fight by saying you like it. There will be plenty who don't.
Genre: General Fiction
"In short, yes."
How did it come to this? Is there any place for a novel such as this? This book will upset many people, which is no bad thing. Hysterical times call forth the hysterical response. We've seen it before but it's been a long time since a book was banned. Can we do it now? This is a novel that slashes viciously at every sacred cow, that rips contemptuously and gleefully into the pompously inflated balloons of hot-aired righteousness. In a parallel world, every form of correctness is cut to ribbons, mocked and derided.
If this dirty little story does its job it will offend and/or entertain every reader who picks it up. With the bookshelves of 2022 sagging under the weight of empowering tales from the right-on worthy, here is the antidote. Here is the snake bite. Take both in vigorous quantities…you need it.
It's a picaresque tale of one young man's journey through multiple realities like a 21st century Gulliver. Naked Lunch goes to the circus. Twin stories unfolding in parallel realities invite the reader to question their own understanding of the world in which they live. Questions of identity and transformation are deployed with comic effect to dismantle the foundations of our belief in ourselves and the certainties we all rely on to get by in a complicated life. Am I who I think I am?
Oh, and it's very funny and rather weird...after all, it's a circus! Be entertained. Be outraged. Start a fight by saying you like it. There will be plenty who don't.
Genre: General Fiction
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