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The Starved Lover Sings
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ISBN10: 0993433154
ISBN13: 9780993433153
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Apr 13 2017
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780993433153
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Apr 13 2017
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
How much can one land take?
How much can one man take?
What if the rains kept coming?
What if the huge waves kept crashing in? What if the plates kept shifting and volcanoes kept up their choking spew? What if neighbouring nations became more antagonistic and the rest of the world began to forget you?
How much can one man take?
What if the rains kept coming?
What if the huge waves kept crashing in? What if the plates kept shifting and volcanoes kept up their choking spew? What if neighbouring nations became more antagonistic and the rest of the world began to forget you?
It's the not-too-distant-future and a certain Asian country is in physical and moral tatters. What was once a polite society has become fouled and corrupted. Part-time referee and full-time PE teacher, Tombo, stands in the middle of all this, trying to find fairness and balance in his own life, as things continue to crumble around him. Added to his personal miseries - missing-presumed-dead daughter, eerily silent wife, unrequited lusts - comes the unwanted, unwarranted attention of two, mean-spirited, wrathful adolescent girls, who have decided that he is to be their chosen one.
Can this harangued Everyman battle against the forces that envelop him, or will he too fall to the whims of the new dystopia?
In this pulsing, provocative, visionary work, O'Sullivan couples his usual lyrical fervour with a philosophical acuity to present before us a trembling world that may not be too far away...
As well as being an absurd existential novel it is also a political satire, and a cautionary tale about what may lay ahead, therefore a novel very much for our times. Colin O'Sullivan's writing is an antic, mordant and perverse plunge into strange and unnerving worlds. Colin Barrett
Can this harangued Everyman battle against the forces that envelop him, or will he too fall to the whims of the new dystopia?
In this pulsing, provocative, visionary work, O'Sullivan couples his usual lyrical fervour with a philosophical acuity to present before us a trembling world that may not be too far away...
As well as being an absurd existential novel it is also a political satire, and a cautionary tale about what may lay ahead, therefore a novel very much for our times. Colin O'Sullivan's writing is an antic, mordant and perverse plunge into strange and unnerving worlds. Colin Barrett
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