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39th out of 62 books
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16 voters
Slow Death
by
Stewart Home (Goodreads Author)
Sexual violence and violent sex plus skinheads attack the art world. A great punk novel.
Paperback, 296 pages
Published
May 1st 1996
by Serpent's Tail
(first published January 1st 1996)
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all about how skinheads might intervene in the process of art historification, and why race isn't real but is experienced as real because of racism.....
This novel should suck according to the standards of contemporary "literary fiction": there's no concern for the humanist pieties of psychological interiority, character development, epiphany; no concern for the realist shibboleths of verisimilitude and the matching of style to subject; no concern for the "fine writing" that will confer a spurious halo of distinction on high-end book consumers. And that's the point: the novel is brilliantly, strategically "bad," in a way that calls out literary...more
Stewart Home has the art world pinned down! His brilliant book had me laughing all the way. I passed it on to Mark Flood and hope that he enjoys it as much as I did.
Terrible writing, extreme and uncalled for raunchiness...but still liked it for some reason; read it straight through in one sitting. Go figure.
There is more about this book here: http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/cha...
Hilarious.
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i can't get through this but i know stewart home is meant to be an interesting writer & it's high risk, which usually means something good.
if you want it, email me & i'll mail it to you.
if you want it, email me & i'll mail it to you.
Not exactly top notch, but really fun and pretty hot. One of the funniest sex scenes I've ever read is in here.
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Stewart Home (born 1962) is a British artist, film maker, writer, subcultural pamphleteer, underground art historian, activist and ego-maniac on a world-historical scale. He is also perhaps the only London born novelist given to reciting his fiction from memory while standing on his head!
Home is best known in Anglo-American mainstream culture for his neo-conceptual art work and more recent novels,...more
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Home is best known in Anglo-American mainstream culture for his neo-conceptual art work and more recent novels,...more
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Nov 25, 2008 04:26pm