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Raw Canvas
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781944527020
Publisher: Natural Press
Published: Nov 25 2024
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Ian Bloom wrote Raw Canvas from age 23 to 25 between Los Angeles and New York - years of velocity, private ruin, and calibrated distance. These short stories move in a slim, core style: isolation, self-destruction, disillusionment, and the tension of liberty under fluorescent consequence. Bloom's prose stays sharp and restrained - mask in shadow, appetite in control - until the scene breaks open.
Raw Canvas is a set of controlled detonations: men in motion, rooms without mercy, heat without romance. From coastal drift and gambling rites to city corridors and terminal lines, Bloom isolates the moment where pleasure turns procedural - and the soul realizes it's been operating on a timer.
Selected stories include:
A Baja Summer
A Familiar Accord
Knock Yourself Out
Natural Purpose
In A Line To Get Out
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