Depraved Indifference

by Gary Indiana

Book Overview

The third of Gary Indiana's famed crime trilogy tells a story inspired by the virtuoso con artistry of mother-and-son criminals Sante and Kenneth Kimes.

She collected future marks like lottery tickets. She operated by reflex. Any public room was a pristine harvest of human information. Not just business cards, phone numbers, fax numbers and the like, but weaknesses, quirks, character flaws, delusional ambitions, risky dreams, medical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1635901081
• ISBN13: 9781635901085
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Semiotext(e)
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

I had fun reading it!

Perhpas it was depraved of me to enjoy it so much, but some dark humor is something I can really appreciate at times. I would have preferred to read this book over a tamer and more factual treatment. Who KNOWS what makes these people tick? It's the bizarreness of the whole business that makes it interesting! Not everything has to be explained or politically correct or moral to be enjoyed -- that would be cutting off one of the human being's exixtential limbs. The species does stuff like this.

deal with it...

the darkest sides of human nature are not always easy to look at - but there is a value in doing so. and there is a value to those storytellers amongst us who can live inside the heads of characters as venal, narcissistic and evil as these.i loved Indiana's writing. his descriptions of, say, the industrial wastelands of newark, new jersey are downright beautiful, and surprising, drawing parallels between the characters in the novel and the environments they find themselves, and besides I like a good run on sentence since I'm not the sort of person who believes in strict formulas or is immune to the charms of an idiosyncratic intellect suffused with style exercising little restraint in turning a phrase.not a book for everyone, but I for one will be seeking out and reading other works from Indiana.

Challenging, shocking; not for everyone

Pay no attention to those who gleefuly eviscerated this book - it's a triumph of wit, style and narrative structure. Indiana takes a tabloidy crime story worthy of a Lifetime movie (this one actually was) and gives it layers and layers of style and nuance. It's like R. Crumb re-writing a story from the National Enquirer: darkly comic, elaborately imagined, terrifying. It hardly skims over incest - Indiana brings both mother and son to excruciatingly detailed inner life. The novel is a risk-taker in both prose and ideas, and it's not entirely successful, but its characters, images and whacked-out turns of phrase sting and linger.