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Homunculus
"When a man can't achieve intimacy with someone else, such as a wife, he ends up achieving it with himself, which is no good." Hector Owen is well aware of his problem. He's a washed-up playwright whose imagination and creative impulse nevertheless have failed to wane in spite of his efforts to deny them. With a lackluster career behind him and a failing, sexless...more
Hardcover, 271 pages
Published
March 20th 2009
by Black Heron Press
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It is hard to describe what I like about this book, and even harder to describe why I feel uncomfortable recommending it. I've read a lot of strange and disturbing literature, and the way this book examines subconscious desires comes off darker than books that focus on gruesome details.
If you want an interesting psychological study of a character whose repressed desires take shape as a little creature birthed out of his navel, then this is the book for you.... just understand that it...more
If you want an interesting psychological study of a character whose repressed desires take shape as a little creature birthed out of his navel, then this is the book for you.... just understand that it...more
A man gives birth to a little man through his navel. An amazingly sane look at the reasonableness of craziness. Anything more would be a spoiler.
A seductive and strange ride that will make you uncomfortable, so just relax, and try not to make it awkward.
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