ISBN: 9781573660273 - distorture (2 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Excellent used condition, Ships airmail from Berlin Bookshop bxn58.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 206 pages. Cover wornIt is the end of the century again: the stories in Distorture are elegiac, ex quisite panels written in memory of certain decayed angels. A woman is buried by a musician who has sworn to protect her. A narcoleptic is found, still dreami ng, with cryptic symbols engraved into her back. In an elegant loft, a silver-ha ired man studies the torso of a comatose surfer, and the bodies of the two men a re transformed into an intricate work of art. These are only a few of the tortou s stories of Rob Hardin, a veteran studio musician and stylist whose work has be en called impeccable by Dennis Cooper. Distorture is a fiercely modern book fu ll of jeweled descriptions of violent eroticism. In Distorture, his first book o f stories, Rob Hardin subverts nineteenth century romanticism and redefines the aesthetics of excess. Distorture splices the digital and the autumnal with the d rive of the dark ambient music and the elegance of a late Liszt Sonata.…