Performer Non Grata
Language: English
Published by Rebel Satori Press, 2023
- Softcover
- New
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- Title
- Performer Non Grata
- Author
- Alessandro, Brian
- Publisher
- Rebel Satori Press
- Publication year
- 2023
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1608642461
- ISBN 13
- 9781608642465
Risk Bonaventura, a successful but insecure investment banker, moves his family from New York to Madrid to buy his way into bullfighting (a brutal childhood dream meant to edify his ego) only to be struck by conscience mid-fight and left seriously injured by the bull. What follows is a threesome with his professor wife, Lorna, (based in part on Camille Paglia) and Javier Forza, a Spanish matador whom he envies and obsesses over, and a sadistic crime, as well as meditations on beauty and disfigurement, arrogance and humiliation, toxic masculinity and the power of the feminine, the new lords of social media, cancel culture, and political correctness, and various permutations of sexuality. In the background the couple's queer video artist son, Theo, comes of age and engages in surreptitious spite work.
Brian Alessandro is savagely calm, fiercely erudite, and fully determined to show us everything - everything - he sees. – Kathe Koja, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Under the Poppy and The Cipher
Brian Alessandro’s Performer Non Grata is a face-meltingly perverse satire-cum-farce, a sort of contemporary love child of Wilde and Burroughs, streaming with blood, splooge, booze, snot, bitcoin, litcoin—and prancing with turgidity. Theater as novel, and vice versa, with no guide for determining the gaslight from the candelabra, the performance from the performance-within-the-performance, colonized from colonizer, faux-minist from feminist, ancient myth from YouTube voyeurism, victim from perp. Who, or what, is there to root for beneath the effluvial wreckage? In a novel whose allegory is the bullfight, I ended up cheering for the bull! —Diane Seuss, Pulitzer Prize winning author of frank: sonnets
Brian Alessandro's satire is warm but stinging. His view of toxic masculinity is accurate and compassionate. He is inventive, funny, odd. He's speaking to our crazy times. —Edmund White
Alessandro has written a psychoanalytic farce on our strange political moment, using the Bonaventura family as a decoder. I laughed and groaned my way through this family's mishaps. Alessandro is working in an endangered queer genre; it's rare to find such Sadean wickedness and wit in a contemporary novel. —Garrard Conley, author of Boy Erased
By turns biting and grotesque, audacious and cruel, Performer Non Grata pierces through the absurdity of how and why we keep deifying masculinity. —Manuel Munoz, three-time O Henry Award winner and author of What You See in The Dark and The Consequences
A madhouse novel, both scathing and unforgettably tender, in which the real and the absurd are one…Alessandro is a virtuoso. —Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Drown, and This Is How You Lose Her
A wild sex-soaked ride! —Iris Smyles, author of Droll Tales and Iris Has Free Time.
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