With his unerring ear for dialogue, transgressive high style, deadpan comedy, and narrative velocity, Harold Jaffe elaborates his harsh millenarian prophecy while it in a satire as fierce as that of Swift or Rabelais. At the same time, Jaffe seeks, as always, to uncover the principle of resistance that will keep us sensitive, sexual, and critical of a culture that would otherwise neuter us. An intricately connected series of texts, virtually a novel, these twelve extreme tales from a master guerilla storyteller will ...
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With his unerring ear for dialogue, transgressive high style, deadpan comedy, and narrative velocity, Harold Jaffe elaborates his harsh millenarian prophecy while it in a satire as fierce as that of Swift or Rabelais. At the same time, Jaffe seeks, as always, to uncover the principle of resistance that will keep us sensitive, sexual, and critical of a culture that would otherwise neuter us. An intricately connected series of texts, virtually a novel, these twelve extreme tales from a master guerilla storyteller will reverberate through our reading, infect our dreams, and bleed into our workday.
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