Victims

by Travis Jeppesen

Book Overview

"Victims may by the most exciting first novel I've read in a decade or more. This is a brilliant, haunting, and, strangest of all, very funny novel."
--Dennis Cooper, -author of Frisk

Victims is a novel about the final days of a religious cult called The Overcomers. Like the infamous Heaven's Gate cult, whose mass suicide gained world media attention in the 1990s, they are a small group of lost souls guided by the teachings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1888451424
• ISBN13: 9781888451429
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Akashic Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

a beautiful adventure

I just finished reading Victims. It deserves a lot better than a slash and burn job by someone blinded by hatred for Dennis Cooper. This is very unusual and interesting and compelling novel. Jeppesen is a lyrical and ambitious writer and I was entranced by his strange world full of vivid feelings and inspired ideas about belief and self. I highly recommend it to readers who long for novels that do more than follow the rules. I don't see the comparison to Cooper's books at all. Victims is something very different and special.