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Orange
Drinking with his dead father, buying narcotics from an amateur chemist, trying to keep track of time, space and where he is. Orange is a distillation of futility and dreaming, over-sleeping and lack of remorse, the story of a character living simultaneously in his past and present through an hallucinogenic binge.
Paperback, 148 pages
Published
February 4th 2009
by Booksurge Publishing
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This book reels you in from the very first sentence and hooks you for the entirety.
The author grabs your attention with a thorough first-person account of drug-riddled life in a dreary urban environment; but as the narrator experiences, so does the reader. You begin lost but, with the immediate mentions of Orange, uncontrollably curious. I read the book from cover to cover in one sitting, itching for more at the end of each chapter.
The gritty realism gives the reader a vivid account of what life...more
The author grabs your attention with a thorough first-person account of drug-riddled life in a dreary urban environment; but as the narrator experiences, so does the reader. You begin lost but, with the immediate mentions of Orange, uncontrollably curious. I read the book from cover to cover in one sitting, itching for more at the end of each chapter.
The gritty realism gives the reader a vivid account of what life...more
As the fictive power of the written narrative decays under the influence of the digital age, Orange: The Diary of an Urban Surrealist presents a newly resonate fictional form.
The initial release from Novelzine Press, a Baltimore based experimental imprint of new fiction, Orange is the first in a series of short, slashing “Novelzines” that proscribes reality in quick descriptive bursts, in the process matching the art form of storytelling with the imperatives of our decidedly visual culture.
Set i...more
The initial release from Novelzine Press, a Baltimore based experimental imprint of new fiction, Orange is the first in a series of short, slashing “Novelzines” that proscribes reality in quick descriptive bursts, in the process matching the art form of storytelling with the imperatives of our decidedly visual culture.
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The movement of the images in this book race by at an incredible speed. Lyrical, malevolent and beautiful descriptions of a city that never was, with a protagonist that is never named, selling a drug that never existed. Orange is breathtakingly surreal and yet has a strong narrative with offerings both hilarious and philisophical. Magically real, intelligent but not overly clever. Orange is a fast read with images that linger, haunt and delight. A book that surprises you with each sucessive read...more
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