Pure Slaughter Value

By Robert Bingham

Book Overview

In his extraordinary debut collection, Pure Slaughter Value, Robert Bingham tracks the conscience of a generation that grew up educated, privileged, and starved for meaning. Bingham's strange sense of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385488556
• ISBN13: 9780385488556
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

A thousand times better than most navel staring collections.

When I read in New York magazine that Bingham was "probably the best writer about New York living in New York," I had my doubts but after finishing this gloriously disturbing debut I left those doubts in the trash. This is the best collection I've read since The Puglalist at Rest