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The Sanguinaires: Or What I Hate Most About Everything
Paperback
Science FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781069692924
Publisher: Muckraker Tribune
Published: Aug 13 2026
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Set against the gothic halls, institutional corridors, and cramped Annex basements of the University of Toronto campus, The Sanguinaires; Or, What I Hate Most About Everything is a sharp, sardonic entry into modern literary fiction.
When the Event reveals everyone's precise time and cause of death, society collapses into state-enforced compliance-pushed by the bureaucratic deployment of Nepenthe and forced Rectification. Amid the compliance, a small resistance known as the Sanguinaires refuses to take the comfortable exit into numbness, choosing instead to stare raw reality in the face.
Blending high philosophical contemplation-Camusian Absurdism, deterministic fate, and existential dread-with the raw, unvarnished grit of lower-class urban life, Gabriel Paul Verveniotis delivers a compelling reconciliation of the celestial and the vulgar. The Sanguinaires is an uncompromising examination of free will, mortality, and human dignity when every illusion of control has been stripped away.
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