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On 'A Deviant Wisdom'Imagine: Chuck Palahniuk filming Henry Miller masturbating over a copy of Euripides’ The Bacchae. With that image firmly in mind you have a good sense of what ‘A Deviant Wisdom’, the debut novel from London based writer Lee Prescott, is all about. A morally ambiguous (or should it be ambiguously moral?) tale of friendship, excess, friendship taken to excess, and the ‘big three’ perennial fixations of mankind: God, sex, and death. Set in London during a few devastatingly fateful months in 2001, to the backdrop of post-millennial comedowns and 9/11, the story follows three friends: Stephen, James, and Sadie, as they come together, inspire each other with wild stories, wild ideas, and wilder behaviour to believe in something MORE. Think of a cut-up between ‘Catcher in the Rye' (without the middle class whining), and ‘Requiem for a dream’ read by Dennis Cooper...then include into the mix three people with furiously potent yet fragile ego’s, tempered by manic-depression, borderline personality disorder, and sexual/religious confusion and the mix is explosive. Through different means and reflecting their respective deepest desires they share in each others goals, accept one another’s flaws, and try to transcend their limitations. Unfortunately the tyranny of Newton’s first law of motion that every action has an equal but opposite reaction dictates that their increasingly rewarding highs are accompanied, like a malignant bride, by a series of harrowing lows which eventually spark a downward spiral none of them can break, culminating in the disintegration of a once precious friendship and the disturbing destruction of each of their dreams.

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Design my book cover

If you an artist or graphic designer who would like your work to grace the front of my debut novel A Deviant Wisdom when it eventually comes to publication send me your e mail address and I will send ...
Posted by on Tue, 29 May 2007 06:59:00 GMT

In the beginning...

In the beginning was the word...no that's not enough, I agree with Henry Miller when he writes that in the beginning was the verb, in the beginning there was 'to be'. It seems more accurate. 'To be', ...
Posted by on Tue, 29 May 2007 06:53:00 GMT

Rejection

The recent spate of haranging literary agents with my synopsis had produced a formidable collection of rejection letters. Don't get me wrong, this isn't a downbeat post, quite the opposite...I feel no...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:54:00 GMT

Character development

I've always prided myself on being able to face what needs to be done and then doing it. It's a tricky issue though as it calls into question sometimes the issue of integrity...what aspects do you sti...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:34:00 GMT

Love Love Love

Words falling like leprous skin, flaking off into the mouths of eager children screaming with mouths wide open desperate to be feed...memories of routes walked to school, endless repetitions of the sa...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:49:00 GMT

To the sound of breaking bones...

Come all ye who dream of faraway places...those for whom the answers that satify the multitude, the rabble, the degenerate mass of insectoid flesh, have always sounded as hollow as the glasses we empt...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:45:00 GMT

Thought for the day toilet paper

Watched a film tonight, made me wonder about the role of sacred objects. I thought back to a Psychic TV gig I went to a couple of years back, and the feeling I had when I watched Mysterious Skin at th...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:23:00 GMT

I will endure

My aim is not to be a writer. I read enough books by 'writers'; I occasionally proofread manuscripts for extra money and read many competent books by 'writers', I meet 'writers', I see people define t...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:14:00 GMT

All of the above

The beginning of the beginning of the...? End, I hear you shout in unison, the upward inflection completing my question. Oh no, I reply to rapturous applause, this is merely the beginning of the begin...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:03:00 GMT