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by admin on Haziran 11th, 2008
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From the amazon.com Editorial Review of Dance, Recover, Repeat :
by admin on Haziran 11th, 2008
From an edgy new voice comes a frenetic novel about boredom, porn, and pills. Brandishing a unique, comic worldview, Alasdair Duncan assembles a surprising, devastating narrative using dialogue, emails, Internet chats, fantasies, notebook entries, blips from video games, and more.
Calvin is sixteen and bored with suburban life. But in the city, things are altogether more exciting. It’s there that Calvin meets Anthony — and the two boys quickly become obsessed with each other. Then Calvin discovers pictures of Anthony on a pornographic website and is drawn into his new friend’s seedy underworld. Just as he’s discovering what’s like when first love meets first sex, when friendship meets lust, and when love meets loss, his teen angst morphs into full-on self-destructivness…and puts him on the path to an absolutely shocking series of events.
With total command of the world he creates for his characters — in which the computer is just another pill you can pop, another way to run and hide, like drinking or drugging or having sex — Alasdair Duncan makes an auspicious debut.
Alasdair wrote his first novel, Sushi Central in 2002, at the age of just 19. It was published in Australia the following year, and in 2005, Simon & Schuster/MTV Pocket Books published it in the USA, under the title Dance, Recover, Repeat. His second novel Metro is due for release in Australia in August of 2006.
“In the piquantly punchy Dance, frenetically cluttered with e-mails, IM chats, and the like, Aussie teen Calvin fixates on a boy whose amateur-porn pic he sees on the Net–and then contemplates a similarly dangerous experience.”
- Entertainment Weekly
“Duncan nails the narrative of upper-middle class teenage angst with a solid hammer”
- API Network
You can buy Dance, Recover, Repeat here.
The Australian edition, Sushi Central, is available here.