Slow Death - Softcover

Home, Stewart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852425199 ISBN 13: 9781852425197

Publisher: Serpent's Tail, 1996

Synopsis

A gang of socially ambitious skinheads run riot through the London art world, plotting the rebirth and violent demise of an elusive avant-garde art movement. Taking genre fiction for a ride, Slow Death uses obscenity, black humor and repetition for the sake of ironic deconstruction. The sleazy sex is always pornographic, and all traditional notions of literary taste and depth are ditched in favor of a transgressive aesthetic inspired by writers as diverse as Home, de Sade, Klaus Theweleit, and 70s cult writer Richard Allen.

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Review:

?Howlingly subversive, graphically nasty and very funny? Big Issue ?Skinhead mayhem let loose on the art world of London in a novel that undercuts its boot-boy bravado with wry satire and self-ridicule? Arena

Synopsis:

In between shagging his doctor and liberating his girlfriend from the SWP, skinhead Johnny Aggro takes on the art establishment. As the poseurs of the art world rush to produce ever more creative piles of crap in the name of art, Johnny revels in the chaos of comic violence and sleazy sex.

About this edition

• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1852425199
• ISBN 13: 9781852425197
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256