Kelly + Victor Revised Edition Contributor(s): Griffiths, Niall (Author) |
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ISBN: 0099422050 ISBN-13: 9780099422051 Publisher: Vintage UK
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback Published: March 2002 Annotation: A dark and disturbing new novel about sadomasochism -- from the acclaimed author of Grits and Sheepshagger. A bar in Liverpool, January 2, 2000. Victor, coming down from the recent global party, meets a girl. Some time later that night he is in her bed. This, he thinks, is the best sex he's ever had. Kelly, coming down after the recent global party, meets a boy. Some time later that night he is in her bed. This, she thinks, is the best sex she's ever had. So the story of Kelly & Victor progresses, through two mirror-image narratives: the spiraling intensity of a sexual obsession traced to an inevitable, devastating conclusion. Set against a backdrop of urban despair, spiritual absence and a world swamped with pornography, it is, above all, a love story -- or what the 21st-century will allow of one. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: PR6057 |
Physical Information: 0.94" H x 5.04" W x 7.98" L (0.56 lbs) 344 pages |
Features: Price on Product |
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2003 pg. 1329 Library Journal 01/01/2004 pg. 156 |
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Publisher Description: A bar in Liverpool, January 2nd 2000: Kelly and Victor, both coming down from the recent global party, meet, andsome time later that night they are in her bed. The story of Kellyand Victor progresses, through two mirror-image narrativesa story of the growth and spiralling intensity of a sexual obsession, traced to its inevitable, devastating conclusion. Set against a backdrop of urban despair, spiritual absence and a world swamped with pornography, this is a novel about yearning for union, for purity, and for magic and mystery in a world that denies them all." |
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