Dhalgren amazon5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() The original paperback I own is a white-bordered brick that begins in mid-sentence and ends with the first part of a sentence that is cut off, a sure label of American post-modern novel writin’. ![]() “Is this book about people screwing, eating and getting into fights in a burning city in a desolate, possibly post-apocalyptic world?” No.ĭhalgren is very much a book of its time. Kid hooks up with a young woman, but theirs is a model of casual relationships: They screw, they eat together, they hang out, and they go their own way for long stretches without checking in (which is impossible in this place - electricity service is spotty, and of course, no social media). There are violent scenes - Kid ends up running with a gang, the members using holographic projectors to create their individual gang identities - and then more sex. In the first sections of the book, the hero - who never remembers his name, but is generally called Kid - has sex with a woman and then later with a man later things get wilder, and frankly perverse. ![]()
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