Song of the Suburbs

By Simon Skinner

If you thought Bret Easton Ellis was a strictly American phenomenon, get ready: the same drugged suburban zombies that people Ellis's work have now migrated across the Atlantic, if Slim Manti is any... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1899344373
• ISBN13: 9781899344376
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Do-Not Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

An amazing novel. Moving towards "anti-novel", even better.

The quality of the prose is excellent, modulated and smooth, not overworked. The stories, a connected series of vignettes, explore ideas about sex, crime, violence, youth alienation, and other extremely valuable issues in a manner reminiscent of Jack Kerouac, on crytal meth perhaps. But with more depth, more consistency, more risk in the conscious way of the sober extremist. The final stories open doors that remain so, refusing to provide easy answers to the basic question of evil, beauty, and sadness. The isolation of the main character is not seen through compassion but through his own clear eyes, seeing what they see but blind to the implications and deeper truth, tragic without the old irony. An excellent book. The writing itself is probably flawless.