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Fester (Paperback)
by Philip Cribbs (Author)
5.0 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Minerva Press (Dec 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0754117294
  • ISBN-13: 978-0754117292
  • Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 13 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,861,691 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Fester. A breeding place for the scum of the earth. A gaping hole where criminals rule the streets and where the inhabitants exist in a haze of drugs and alcohol, devoid of hope or feeling. Festerers are vicious and corrupt. If you come to Fester you risk ruin, degradation, even death: no one is safe; no one can escape. Damien Monk: eternal pessimist and failed suicide. Hooch Wilder: loose cannon and vigilante. Finnigan Ferret: crippled and permanently stoned. Jet Jones: dissatisfied and a failure in love. Digger Daisy: warm-hearted giant and alcoholic. And Jack: twenty-five years old and already finished with life. Can these friends manage to shrug off the stench of Fester, or are they beyond redemption?

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning cluster bomb of a debut novel, 21 Feb 2002
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Existential malaise and post-modern angst have been discussed by polo-necked continental philosophers for over half a century, and stoked the pretentious intellectual posturing of Guardian readers and their sort throughout the world.

Philip Cribbs' shattering work cuts through the bullsh*t to the very heart of the human experience. Funny yet disturbing, universal yet intensely personal, Fester is an assault on the individual and his perception of the world around him.

Clearly written in the subversive tradition of Burroughs, but with the unexpected analytical clarity of Camus, Cribbs' visionary text points the way for a raw, honest literary experience... Can literature once again show us how to live in the face of the distractions of 21st century culture? Is Fester the way forward?

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Book You Shouldn't Read, 16 Mar 2002
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A roller coaster into oblivion and madness going down and down into the void and causing some second big bang. The literary form of Spengler's organic matrix, Buddhist cycles and Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision. The infinitesimal to the universal, an extension of Kerouac's nothingness-totality poems. Where do we go from here? We just go, go on repeating ourselves - knowing that the only solution to life is living. But Death, Lady Madness, the Man in the Wide-brimmed Hat - they'll have to pull these characters out of life, pull them kicking and screaming. In the tradition of Phillip Dick's The Man in the High Castle, this novel is alive, it is self aware, and thus it is truly a work of art - existing in its own space. If you love suffering, you'll love Fester.
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