The History of Luminous Motion - Softcover
Eight-year-old Phillip Davis describes his life with his mother, Margaret, living as transients, and using stolen credit cards to finance their day-to-day existence
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Phillip is eight years old. He experiences material reality as a hindrance, so he tries to stay in an inner realm composed only of abstract concepts like gravity, motion, sound and light. He lives with Mom, who stays alone in her bedroom. Once he killed a man with gleaming tools from a hardware store. He has a friend with whom he does burglary and drugs and seances. Then Dad comes to stay, and Phillip descends to a subterranean otherworld where he makes contact with "dead black things, obloid and featureless, like faintly disembodied laundry hampers." A sad, beautiful book.
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Born in California in 1955, Scott Bradfield has lived in London for thirty years. He is the author of THE HISTORY OF LUMINOUS MOTION (Calamari Press, 2013).
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- PublisherPicador USA
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0312140894
- ISBN 13 9780312140892
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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