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'Kelly is clearly the most morally bankrupt writer of his generation' - Cathi Unsworth, author of The Not Knowing, The Singer and Bad Penny Blues
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Format:Paperback
Irish writer Alan Kelly's Let Me Die A Woman is:
An exploitation fairy story.
A cinematic tale of revenge.
A rites of passage fable.
A karate kicking, high kicking, bovver boot kicking, sci-fi, horror, action movie cocktail of everything in the entire world - except the kitchen sink because kitchen sinks are far too drab and have no place HERE!
Can you imagine if Angela Carter's The Company Of Wolves was adapted for the screen by John Carpenter and directed by John Waters and THEN turned into a novelisation by Christa Faust? No, neither can I and it probably wouldn't be anything like this lurid, vivid assault on the senses either but if you like the idea of THAT then Mr Kelly's splendid debut is the book for you.
Let Me Die A Woman is another blisteringly brilliant and beautifully designed mini -novel brought to you by those mad mavericks at PULP PRESS.
An exploitation fairy story.
A cinematic tale of revenge.
A rites of passage fable.
A karate kicking, high kicking, bovver boot kicking, sci-fi, horror, action movie cocktail of everything in the entire world - except the kitchen sink because kitchen sinks are far too drab and have no place HERE!
Can you imagine if Angela Carter's The Company Of Wolves was adapted for the screen by John Carpenter and directed by John Waters and THEN turned into a novelisation by Christa Faust? No, neither can I and it probably wouldn't be anything like this lurid, vivid assault on the senses either but if you like the idea of THAT then Mr Kelly's splendid debut is the book for you.
Let Me Die A Woman is another blisteringly brilliant and beautifully designed mini -novel brought to you by those mad mavericks at PULP PRESS.
Format:Paperback
I'd give this 3.5 stars if I could but Amazon doesn't let me do that. This feels a lot like classic horror of a low budget B movie combined with futuristic mannerismss and swearing as well as Midwich Cuckoos. The initial protagonists are Aliens disgused as scarecrows who go about killing everything in sight and intend to kill even more people.
It then splits into a story about a person called Flask who gets the sack from a magazine of some kind and seeks out to get revenege it is a bit of a stretched point here but uncovers a horrific plot to destroy humanity in the process of getting vengence. LMDAW is very short however it is gritty and vivid in its gory depictions though it is very dark as everybody seems to be evil in the book.Everybody in this book is quite lively and colourful too colourful maybe almost like drama queens crossed with the bloke off the texas chainsaw massacre .
It is also fast paced and somehow managed to get the quality of page turner.
Not to everybody's taste though as other people who read it thought it was way over the top in some places.
It then splits into a story about a person called Flask who gets the sack from a magazine of some kind and seeks out to get revenege it is a bit of a stretched point here but uncovers a horrific plot to destroy humanity in the process of getting vengence. LMDAW is very short however it is gritty and vivid in its gory depictions though it is very dark as everybody seems to be evil in the book.Everybody in this book is quite lively and colourful too colourful maybe almost like drama queens crossed with the bloke off the texas chainsaw massacre .
It is also fast paced and somehow managed to get the quality of page turner.
Not to everybody's taste though as other people who read it thought it was way over the top in some places.
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Great book
26 Nov 2010
Format:Paperback
Fantastic. It was great writing, great characters, cool pulp feel, hard core b*tche$ and filthy language.
Puts the fun back into "Some books are fun to read."
Puts the fun back into "Some books are fun to read."
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