The Goddess Lens (Paperback)

Language: English

Published by Henningham Family Press, London, 2022

1916218644 / 9781916218642

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Paperback. 'If the Celts have nine gods of eloquence, then Pascal O'Loughlin's voice in his second novel The Goddess Lens exhibits them all. Pop the goddess lens into your eye for a fabulous postmodern trip that makes itself as it's unmade. There you will be woven into the creative despair, profound insight and helpless joy of a mind on fire. The Goddess Lens shares its protagonist between Pascal, a fat, Irish, gay novelist and Christine, a lesbian private investigator, both seeking succour from feminine energies--creative, sexual, maternal--pick one, or them all. The novelist, fidgety with doubt and a 'horror of toil' consults his ex, Nigel, for editing advice on Christine's tale, which shifts dizzyingly from her childhood in an orphanage to a lesbian squat, via alien craft harbouring "a green slime of countless genders." Then comes Lockdown to thicken the dystopia. O'Loughlin's imagination is agile, nay aerobic, ensorcelling the reader into a maniacal universe--guarded by a woman named Appetite--which worships spider plants and waits to be restarted by a female deity. But will Pascal be compensated for homophobic abuse by the Catholic Church? "I don't actually have a real life," he says. "I live in this story. The story wants to infect the world." ' Cherry Smyth, author of Famished and My Animal, My Age (forthcoming). Pascal implants his eye with a green lens that promises to open a Virtual Reality world. While he waits for it to kick in, his critical ex-boyfriend/editor, a ramshackle novel about Goddesses, and the first Covid-19 lockdown make the real world an awkward and unpleasant place to be. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title
The Goddess Lens (Paperback)
Author
Pascal O'Loughlin
Publisher
Henningham Family Press, London
Publication year
2022
Condition
new
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
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