Gone Tomorrow
A Novel
$32.02
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2018
Summary
A story of sex and madness on the set of an art film set in Colombia, as told by an actor who survived to look back on it all in the cold light of day.Footloose and broke, the unnamed narrator ofGoneTomorrowhops on a plane without asking questions when his director friend offers him a role in an art film set in Colombia. But from the moment he arrives at the airport in Bogota, only to witness a policeman beat a beggar half to death, it becomes clear that this will not be the story of gritty bohemians triumphing against the odds. The director, Paul Grosvenor, seems more interested in manipulating his cast than in shooting film. The cult star, Irma Irma, is a vamp too bored and boring to draw blood. And the beautiful, nymph-like Michael Simard doesn’t seem to be putting out. Meanwhile, the film’s shady financier is sleeping with his mother, while a serial killer skulks about the area killing tourists. Everything comes to a head when thecarnavalcelebration begins in nearby Cali. But once the fiesta is over, all that’s left are ghostly memories and the narrator’s insistence on telling the tale. “Unlike the majority of pointedly AIDS-era novels,” writes Dennis Cooper, “GoneTomorrowis neither an amoral nostalgia fest nor a thinly veiled wake-up call hyping the religion of sobriety. It’s a philosophical work devised by a writer who’s both too intelligent to buy into the notion that a successful future requires the compromise of collective decision and too moral to accept bitterness as the consequence of an adventurous life.”
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781609808631 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1609808630 |
| Author: | Gary Indiana, Sarah Nicole Prickett |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2018 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 140mm x 209mm |
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Critics Review
“Horribly refreshing, like an ice-cold glass of acid on a sweltering summer day … Indiana writes with an art critic’s eye for detail and a poet’s ear for language.” –Philadelphia Inquirer
“A novel too weird and perverted and frankly minacious to stay in print, too unforgettable not to be reissued.” –Sarah Nicole Prickett, from the introduction
“A disturbing, vivid, and brutal novel that succeeds in its dizzy mix of genres and influences. Not for the prudish, though.” –Kirkus Reviews
“Amazingly perverse, savagely amusing, unflinchingly serious. It may be in fact be the first really serious work of the imagination to come out of the AIDS catastrophe.” –Michael Herr, author of Dispatches
Gary Indiana
An actor, playwright, artist, poet, critic, and novelist who has chronicled the despair and hysteria of America in the late twentieth century, Gary Indiana was born in 1950 in New Hampshire. FromHorse Crazy(1989), a tale of feverish love set against the backdrop of downtown New York amid the AIDS epidemic, toDo Everything in the Dark(2003), “a desolate frieze of New York’s aging bohemians” (n+1), Indiana’s novels mix horror and bathos, grim social commentary with passages of tenderest, frailest desire. With 1997’sResentment: A Comedy, Indiana began his true crime trilogy, following up withThree Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story(1999) andDepraved Indifference(2002). Together, the three novels show the most vicious crimes in our nation’s history to be only American pathologies personified. In 2015, Indiana published his acclaimed anti-memoir,I Can Give You Anything But Love. Called one of “the most brilliant critics writing in America today” by theLondon Review of Books, “the punk poet and pillar of lower-Manhattan society” by Jamaica Kincaid, and “one of the most important chroniclers of the modern psyche” by theGuardian, Gary Indiana remains both inimitable and impossible to pin down.
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