Shirker
by Chad Taylor 
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The sun rises over an Antipodean cityscape. A municipal dumpster, wired shut, contains the unidentifiable corpse of an ageing junkie, his face and body lacerated by the broken glass cuts sustained while trying to escape. Ellerslie Penrose, part-time futures broker and full-time existentialist, finds the victim's wallet at the scene and is drawn obliquely into an attempt to explain this hideous murder. Trawling through an increasingly bizarre series of fantasy bordellos, railway shunting show more yards and steamy Japanese noodle houses, Penrose begins to sense the extent of the evil he is up against, an evil that can defy time itself. By turns hallucinatory and erotic, Shirker is a terrifying exploration of violent and sexually-charged obsessions. The cool, poetic prose of Chad Taylor establishes him as one of the finest new voices in contemporary fiction. show lessTags
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Une ambiance étrange, des faits déroutants, un "héros" qui ne l'est pas moins... l'intrigue de l'histoire est de plus en plus opaque au fur et à mesure que l'on avance dans sa lecture. On n'a pas toutes les réponses, c'est un livre original, qu'on ne lâche pas facilement avant d'être arrivée au bout...
Apr 25, 2011French
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Chad Taylor is a LibraryThing Author, an author who lists their personal library on LibraryThing.
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