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| Come Before Christ And Murder Love (Paperback – Second-hand) |
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Full blurb:
Kevin Callan is running away, but the past keeps catching up with him. That's the price he has to pay for using the occult to get his sexual kicks while manipulating everyone around him. Sometimes Callan claims to be the victim of a state-sponsored mind control programme, at others, the man in charge of the whole operation. The thing is, Callan has a thousand different identities, and a range of London apartments, disciples, lovers and possibly murder victims to go with his lifestyle. Come Before Christ And Murder Love is a tale of mental disorder, magick, London, food, thought control and human sacrifice. Stewart Home’s novel explores sex and the occult both as ideologies and ways of organising ‘knowledge’. Here, the traditional distinctions between novelist and critic, truth and fiction, authors and their audience, are visibly eroded.
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First page first lines:
‘I closed my eyes and relaxed, when I opened them again Sarah Osterly had disappeared but a man I recognised as Dr John Hodges was sitting opposite me. He was my controller, the man from whom it felt as if I’d spent a lifetime trying to escape’...
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Category: Novel
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Author: Stewart Home
Stewart Home is the author of numerous books of fiction and cultural commentary, including Blood Rites of the Bourgoisie, Down And Out In Shoreditch And Hoxton, 69 Things To Do With A Dead Princess, Tainted Love and Memphis Underground.
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Publisher: Harper Collins
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Reviews:
‘This book is a great example of Home's postmodern, ironic approach to literature, and sees him take the cut and paste techniques initiated in Slow Death and Red London to a new level.’ – Amazon.
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| Book code: BTD058 |
| Price: GBP £ 2.00 |
| USD $ 3.50 |
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