Anhedonia: a psychological condition characterized by inability to experience pleasure in normally pleasurable acts. (Merriam-Webster online)In this heady mix of short fiction surreal violence and an off-kilter black comedy come to the fore. The result: intensely skewed visions of an immoral modern world, menacing and macabre. With these slices of the absurd O’Sullivan delves into the darker moments, perverted streaks, in an attempt to enlarge the peculiarities and foibles that are in us all; chimera and whimsy refuse to give way to analysis or rationalism, moments of fancy tower over emotion or depth.
Welcome to the realm of contemporary urban gothic.
ISBN: 9781897381120
Price: $17.95
256 pages
Caution: This prose is rated adult reading. www.rainbooks.com
1 comment:
Colin, your writings leave you thinking long after the story is complete.
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