Cant - Joseph Harms
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After being arrested for trespassing on his ex-girlfriend's college campus, nineteen-year-old Shannon receives a restraining order, an inveterate attack of colic and an inexplicable phone call from the Voice whose seemingly impossible promise to reunite Shannon with his unrequited love plays on a potential-suicide's willingness to try anything. Uncertain of the Voice's motives, Shannon nonetheless follows i ... Full description
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Written with a poetic density reminiscent of John Milton and the inevitable sense of concinnity in Cormac McCarthy, CANT soon departs from a traditional morality tale into an inverted bildungsroman in which an escalation of alcohol and opiate intake threatens to reave the Voice's proffered rewards of significance and Shannon's attrited memory of love. As their mercenary travail is degraded into otiose bloodletting each must maintain, lose, transcend or be transpierced by the ensiform hope on which he has balanced for perhaps too long.
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| Author | Joseph Harms |
|---|---|
| Publisher | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Release year | 2014 |
| Cover type | Softcover |
| EAN | 9781494357085 |