Last Burn in Hell: Director's Cut - Brossura

Lawson, John Edward

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1933293268 ISBN 13: 9781933293264

Casa editrice: Raw Dog Screaming Pr, 2006

Riassunto

Kenrick Brimley, the state prison's official gigolo, hangs over a lava pit on trial for his life in a strange land. He will reveal the course of his life one misguided step at a time for his captors. From his romance with serial arsonist Leena Manasseh to his lurid angst-affair with a lesbian music diva, from his ascendance as unlikely pop icon to otherworldly encounters, the one constant truth is that he's got no clue what he's doing. As unrelenting as it is original, Last Burn in Hell is John Edward Lawson at his most scorching intensity, serving up sexy satire and postmodern pulp with his trademark day-glow prose.

The Director's Cut edition includes:

• Deleted scenes
• Alternate ending
• Photo stills
• Remastering for more enjoyable viewing
• And more!

What inspired this book?

Lawson says: "When I started writing Last Burn in Hell I was not setting out to complete a novel. In fact I was just attempting to conduct research for a short story to submit for an anthology. During my research, though, I came across a peculiar website. See, I wanted to write about a prison guard and their relationship with an inmate. I wasn't sure if it would be friendship or romantic. I wanted to explore the notion of knowing someone as they're going through their final weeks and days leading up to execution.

"What I found was a one-of-a-kind unique porn site apparently making use of security cameras and other footage, all depicting supposedly authentic encounters between prison guards and female death row inmates in several countries. Those countries were France, China, the United States, and one or two others. Why these nations? Because — according to the site at least — it is customary in these nations to permit a prisoner one last sexual encounter the night before their execution.

"So I thought myself, 'Wow. That is either real and so messed up it deserves a story in its own right, or that that is fake and so messed up it deserves a story in its own right. Either way I'm going to write about it. Now the real question is: what kind of person would do this sort of thing?'

"Enter our protagonist: the well-intentioned bleeding heart whose every move only makes things worse... So how well-intentioned can he really be? Sure, he has his own traumatic past, and bizarre current situation, but at the core is a story about someone who is really, really dense. And that’s what makes it fun."

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Recensione:

"From hereon forth, I will not be able to bring up Vonnegut without speaking of Lawson. John Edward Lawson could contest the throne that Chuck Palahniuk sits upon with the masses of college students looking for something different, a voice of the counter-culture." -Skullring.org "A nice literary feat, disturbing, amusing and always entertaining...hilarious, deadly accurate social and cultural commentary." -Verbicide "John Edward Lawson is very much a man of ideas (one need only read his poetry to understand that), and Last Burn in Hell: Director's Cut shows that not only is he constantly coming up with new ones, but he is also unlikely to run out of them anytime soon...it would very likely appeal to fans of The World According to Garp, and it deserves that large and diverse audience." -Somebody Dies "In Last Burn in Hell, John Edward Lawson takes us on an insane trip where predicting what happens next is virtually impossible. This book draws the reader in right from the beginning and continues to be laugh-out-loud funny and nightmarishly scary to the very end... It ranks right up there with other bizarro cult classics like Satan Burger." -The Swallow's Tail "Last Burn in Hell is an exceptional creature as far as books go...Lawson is an exception to the business of comparison in that his voice is a worthwhile addition to the chorus of authors following the trend most prominently presented in Palahniuk's body of work. An earnest, but wry honesty in writing, exploring the paradoxes of our contemporary American society." -Scott Lefebvre for Icons of Fright "I like writers who say things that you're not supposed to say, and Lawson's fiction is exhilarating in its anarchic rebelliousness-obscene, crude, sacrilegious, and explosively intelligent." -Write-aholic "Lawson has taken creativity to a whole new level, insisting that the publishing industry as a whole stand up and take notice. The George Orwell of our time, John Lawson illuminates the new direction of fiction...then punches it square in the face." -Ronald Damien Malfi, author of The Floating Staircase and Snow "A hip picaresque novel of the kind recommended by William Burroughs." -Steve Beard, author of Digital Leatherette "A crazy, fun romp through prison sex psychosis!" -Michael A. Arnzen, author of Play Dead

L'autore:

John Edward Lawson is a writer and editor living in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC. He is the author of fifteen books of fiction and poetry, and seven chapbooks. Over 500 of his poems, stories, and articles have been published in magazines, anthologies, literary journals, and newspapers worldwide. John was a winner of the 2001 Fiction International Emerging Writers Competition; in addition to being a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award (2006, Superior Achievement in Poetry) and the Wonderland Award for Bizarro Fiction (2007, collected fiction), other award nominations include two for the Dwarf Stars Award, the Pushcart Prize, and two for the Rhysling Award.

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• Editore: Raw Dog Screaming Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1933293268
• ISBN 13: 9781933293264
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256