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From Goodreads: Phillip is eight years old. He experiences material reality as a hindrance, so he tries to stay in an inner realm composed only of abstract concepts like gravity, motion, sound and light. He lives with Mom, who stays alone in her bedroom. Once he killed a man with gleaming tools from a hardware store. He has a friend with whom he does burglary and drugs and seances. Then Dad comes to stay, and Phillip descends to a subterranean otherworld where he makes contact with "dead black things, obloid and featureless, like faintly disembodied laundry hampers." A sad, beautiful book.
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Born in California in 1955, Scott Bradfield has lived in London for thirty years. He is the author of THE HISTORY OF LUMINOUS MOTION (Calamari Press, 2013).
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This ambitious first novel, with its echoes of everything from Oedipus Rex to Camus and Mishima, concerns the exploits of an eight-year-old California psychopath. Phillip Davis and his mother travel the highways, living by their wits and occasionally settling down with various men his mother meets. Wanting mom totally to himself and desiring the more "authentic" existence of the road, Phillip contrives ways to eliminate all rivals, culminating with an attempt to murder his returned father. Phillip is a perversely fascinating character--alienated, self-educated, and intellectually mature beyond his years, a prepubescent existentialist who finds killing a redemptive act. But ultimately he is so advanced as to be unbelievable, casting doubts on Bradfield's intention and considerably weakening the novel's impact.
- Lawrence Rungren, Bedford Free P.L., Mass.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Lawrence Rungren, Bedford Free P.L., Mass.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherBloomsbury
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0747503435
- ISBN 13 9780747503439
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