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121 Days of Urban Sodom (Paperback)

by Jacqueline Phillips (Author)
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  • Paperback: 250 pages
  • Publisher: Millivres-Prowler Group Ltd (20 Jan 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1873741944
  • ISBN-13: 978-1873741948
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 931,618 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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What is more terrifying than death? The dark finality of child sexual abuse. 121 Days of Urban Sodom is the story of a woman who tells her own experiences of incestual abuse through de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom as a portal of exploration. Sade becomes a metaphor for abuse and a lever in which to entwine the past with the political commentary of the present, thus, linking the eighteenth century, the nineteen-eighties and now.

Written in the first person the narrator projects the agony, wrath and contamination of a survivor using frequent streams of consciousness. Written in the third person the motives of the abuser are explored. Written in the second person the narrator hates and blames, you the reader, you the society, you the system that upholds the abusers and vilifies the child. Like the Sade who reared her; the narrator is a contradiction of rationality and madness, charm and terror. It is a unique, insightful and disturbing book. 121 Days of Urban Sodom has declared war and it is important we all understand why.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy this book, 13 Jul 2005
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I have only read 50 pages of this book (on someone else's recommendation) and it is absolutely the worst book I have ever read. The sex scenes could win the bad sex prize hands down for the next 1,000 years and it is interspersed with descriptions of de Sade's writings on rape and child abuse, supposedly to tell us how terrible rape and child abuse are. Doh! I KNOW rape and child abuse are terrible already. In actual fact, I think it is the utterly cynical ploy of a shockingly bad writer to sell her book (and I see it's succeeded). She accuses those who read de Sade of being middle class tourists. Well if you buy this you're a second hand middle class tourist in other people's misery and that's a lot worse in my estimation. If you want to read a really fabulous book about the subject of abuse of women and children try Louise Welsh's 'The cutting room', fabulously written, and extremely humane.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 121 Days of Urban Sodom, 10 Sep 2004
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The most original work I have ever read. The prose creeps off the page leaving a mark on your thoughts for a long time afterwards. This is a rollercoaster of a read, the author pulls the reader into the book, and before we know it are falling into it. This is a terrifying novel, not in the conventional horror sense, but, in far more sinister psychological way. The narrators world is dystopic and because we fall into that world to the point where it feels at times like sitting next to the narrator, every dark emotion feels so real.

The author is a expert with metaphor, spinning them on a micro level within a sentence and on a macro level whereby Sade becomes the metaphor for all abuses in society, coupled with random streams of consciousness it makes the most beautiful prose and creates strong and sometimes tearful emotions. The reader doesn't know if s/he is reading a story, a deconstruction, or a life, but the way the author scuplts the words it really doesn't matter.

A must read, because it is important.

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