Slow Death (High Risk Books) - Softcover

Home, Stewart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852425199 ISBN 13: 9781852425197

Publisher: Serpent's Tail, 1996

Synopsis

Sexual violence and violent sex plus skinheads attack the art world. A great punk novel.

About this title

About the Author:

Stewart Home is an art 'terrorist', writer and lecturer who lives in Scotland. He is the author of Mind Invaders, Blow Job, Come Before Christ and Murder Love, and Slow Death, and the editor of Suspect Device.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Slow Death ($12.99 paperback original; May 1996; 245 pp.; 1- 85242-519-9). A dreary, noisy novel that recounts with visceral overenthusiasm the adventures of a gang of British skinheads in conflict with a sex-starved woman doctor, a London ``art star,'' and one another, as they explore the vicissitudes of ``Art and Resistance'' in a foulmouthed frontal assault on the avant-garde art scene. Its contempt for bourgeois values produces some agreeable inventions (``Neoism,'' ``the Semiotic Liberation Front,'' and ``the Journal of Immaterial Art'' constitute decent throwaway gags at least), but its blood- and sperm-soaked narrative and its characters' continual entreaties for oral sex are muted, though scarcely redeemed, by what might in another context be called elegant variation (``liquid genetics,'' indeed). This is the kind of book that gives mindless violence and sexual degradation a bad name. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1852425199
• ISBN 13: 9781852425197
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296