Hallucinations - Softcover
Book by Quine, Rohan
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HALLUCINATIONSFOUR NOVELLAS BY ROHAN QUINEHallucination in Hong KongA concert of unearthly music, sung from a stage perched high upon the Peak above Hong Kong, as the whole world listens--then disaster and catatonia, murder, love and bloodshed...Hallucination DowntownViolence and visions in the swirling silver billows in a sealed-off building, as a cast of exquisite human creatures live their fantasies, drugged on mirror-vapor...Hallucination in New YorkVirtual reality, consumed by the masses but controlled from a single source in Manhattan--until the ultimate reality is broadcast, and no-one can remain the same...Apricot EyesThrough the crackle and the night-pulse of New York's streets and subways, two young visionaries pursue their intuitions, on the trail of an evil pair...Centering on the fabulous identities, perceptions and adventures of Amber and Kiki, the spectacular visuality and richly rhythmic language of these four novellas make Rohan Quine's Hallucinations an obsessive fantasy of dark androgyny, ironic horror and apocalyptic beauty.DEMON ANGEL BOOKS
Review:
"I have now been reading Hallucinations with great pleasure ... you are indeed a star."
--Iris Murdoch
"He has no equal, today or tomorrow."--James Purdy
"Most taut and clever in ['Apricot Eyes']; it grips the reader and gives a provocative ride ... [Hallucinations] develops 'alternative' characters with style and dimension, as well as challenging traditional forms of storytelling with admirable results."
--Tom Musbach, Lambda Book Report
"Sometimes Quine succeeds with things you wouldn't think language could do, like describing a piece of music with an extended metaphor that reads something like watching the last half-hour of 2001."--Ben Cohen, New York Press.
"Hallucinations at the end of this millennium is what Lautréamont's, Huysmans's and Wilde's work represented at the end of the 19th century ... a sadistically svelte structure on top of explosive, primal content that refuses to behave in a linear fashion. It can only be described as literature that strains between ecstasy and bondage ... one of the chic-est, most provocative things we have read in years ... one of those seminal works that goes on to be accorded the status of a classic."--Wayne Sterling, New York Web
"The imagery is Apocalypse Now-era Coppola meets Wes Craven, or Edward Scissorhands meets Barbarella ... or Anne Rice (as screenwriter) on an acid trip ... the lilt and cadence of prose poetry laid end-to-end, resulting in a narrative that is frequently stunning ... sublime verbal renderings of the emotions and sensations of human love."--Hayward Connor, Union Jack
--Iris Murdoch
"He has no equal, today or tomorrow."--James Purdy
"Most taut and clever in ['Apricot Eyes']; it grips the reader and gives a provocative ride ... [Hallucinations] develops 'alternative' characters with style and dimension, as well as challenging traditional forms of storytelling with admirable results."
--Tom Musbach, Lambda Book Report
"Sometimes Quine succeeds with things you wouldn't think language could do, like describing a piece of music with an extended metaphor that reads something like watching the last half-hour of 2001."--Ben Cohen, New York Press.
"Hallucinations at the end of this millennium is what Lautréamont's, Huysmans's and Wilde's work represented at the end of the 19th century ... a sadistically svelte structure on top of explosive, primal content that refuses to behave in a linear fashion. It can only be described as literature that strains between ecstasy and bondage ... one of the chic-est, most provocative things we have read in years ... one of those seminal works that goes on to be accorded the status of a classic."--Wayne Sterling, New York Web
"The imagery is Apocalypse Now-era Coppola meets Wes Craven, or Edward Scissorhands meets Barbarella ... or Anne Rice (as screenwriter) on an acid trip ... the lilt and cadence of prose poetry laid end-to-end, resulting in a narrative that is frequently stunning ... sublime verbal renderings of the emotions and sensations of human love."--Hayward Connor, Union Jack
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- PublisherDemon Angel Books
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 096487007X
- ISBN 13 9780964870079
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages179
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Hallucinations by Quine, Rohan
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