The Dead All Have The Same Skin
by Boris Vian
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a nasty piece of work. vile. depraved. disgusting. rape. murder. racism. immorality. amorality. seedy. sleazy. blood. semen. shit. piss.
well, the book floats around new york city. bars and bistros and pool halls and tenements and back alleys. and dan parker... he's a bad bad man. bangs prostitutes two at a time behind his wife's back, beats up mucho people (particularly black people, he hates black people), hates his wife, hates himself... it's pitch perfect noir.
and then it flips off ...more
well, the book floats around new york city. bars and bistros and pool halls and tenements and back alleys. and dan parker... he's a bad bad man. bangs prostitutes two at a time behind his wife's back, beats up mucho people (particularly black people, he hates black people), hates his wife, hates himself... it's pitch perfect noir.
and then it flips off ...more
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Read in May, 2008
I went to a very diverse high school in Los Angeles. In one of my English classes we had to write a paper on the single thing that affected our lives more than anything else. The class was probably about 25-30% black and when the teacher handed back the papers she told us that pretty much every single black student had written that being black was the single thing that affected their lives more than anything else. This led to what was easily the best discussion on race in America that I've ev...more
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"I opened and closed my left hand two or three times. I felt good. A girl and a fight. That's life. Where did I get the idea that it could ever be anything else? Jesus Christ! If I just had the time to wipe them all out, annihilate them all before they ruin my life, I swear to God that afterwards, there'd be no more gloomy days in this boy's life."
"I got up and moved around a bit. I was feeling just fine. That foggy confusion had suddenly disappeared. Two girls at once. Ce...more
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Ok, this is my book (I published it) and it is being released today. For those who want to read an excerpt of the book, there is a short story called "Dogs, Desire, and Death" by Boris Vian. The great and wonderful Dennis Cooper put it on his blog (April 1) and you can read the short story at
http://denniscooper-theweaklin...
Do enjoy!
http://denniscooper-theweaklin...
Do enjoy!
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A new Vian(to me),this is very good news.Short, lean, nasty piece of noir that isn’t one of my favorite Vian books. But, then again it isn’t a Vian book it’s a book written by his invented author Vernon Sullivan. His main characters struggles(with an original twist though) reminds me a little of Joe Christmas from Falkner’s masterpiece A Light in August. Of course this book isn’t as deep as that book but it never intends to be and the questions on race and racism are still interesting ...more
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Read in September, 2008
Couldn't put it down. After two years of virtually nothing but clinical psych texts, this yarn took me on a happy trip to noir-land. Thanks to our Tosh for making it happen en anglais.
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