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In this unsettling new book, cult author Peter Sotos recounts the abduction and murder of 8-year-old Sarah Payne, a crime that stunned England and spawned an aftermath of reactionary outcry and violent protest. Through news bites and tabloid clippings reassembled in reverse chronology, Sotos examines the media apotheosis of Payne's parents in the wake of her disappearance, scrutinizes the hidden motives of reporters and citizens driven to hysterical excess by grief, vengeance, and opportunism, and illumines the insatiable lusts that govern the actions of sexual predators. Punctuated by philosophical overtures and self-deprecating quips, Comfort and Critique is a brutal meditation on fantasy and desire set against a backdrop of media banter and illicit back room activity in bars and underground sex clubs. Supplemented by over 100 photos, this volume is possibly Sotos' most revealing and multi-faceted work yet.
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About the Author:
Peter Sotos is a Chicago-born writer whose works are often cited as conveying an uncanny understanding of myriad aspects of pornography. His writings are also considered by many to be social criticism often commenting on the hypocritical way media handles these issues.
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The latest book by Peter Sotos, the world’s foremost literary brutalist... --Travis Jeppesen, New York Press
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- PublisherNine-Banded Books
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1616583487
- ISBN 13 9781616583484
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
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