Baudrillard meets Breaking Bad in this stark and bleakly hilarious
novel about a descent into an underclass world of born-again
Christianity, self-help, and crack. "In his journal, Paul liked to
make lists: What he ordered from Commissary (shaving cream,
toothpaste, deodorant, the transistor radio he had for a week
before the guards took it away). The books he picked off the cart
(The Bible, Dean Koontz, Stephen King, Codependent No More.) What
phone calls he made and received; also, Bible Study certificates,
letters and cards, his workout routines and his moods (Anxious,
Nervous, Trusting in God, but mostly Depressed). Paul has a record
of every push-up he did while he was in prison but he cannot
remember shit about what happened before his arrest." -from Summer
of Hate Waking up from the chilling high of a near-death sex game,
Catt Dunlop travels to Albuquerque in 2005 to reinvest some
windfall real-estate gains and reengage with something
approximating "real life." Aware that the critical discourse she
has used to build her career as a visiting professor and art critic
is really a cipher for something else, she hopes that buying and
fixing slum buildings will bring her more closely in touch with
American life than the essays she writes. In Albuquerque, she
becomes romantically involved with Paul Garcia, a recently sober
ex-con who has just served sixteen months in state prison for
defrauding Halliburton Industries, his former employer, of $873.
Almost forty years old, Paul is highly intelligent but has only
been out of New Mexico twice. He has no information. With Catt's
help, he makes plans to attend UCLA, only to be arrested on a
ten-year-old bench warrant en route. Caught in the nightmarish
Byzantine world of the legal system, Catt and Paul's empathic
attempts to save each other's lives seems doomed to dissolve.
Summer of Hate is a novel about flawed reciprocity and American
justice, recording recent events through the prism of a beleaguered
romance. As lucid and trenchant as ever, Kraus in her newest novel
reminds us that the writer can be a first responder of sorts when
power becomes invisible, or merely banal.
General
Imprint: |
Semiotext(e)
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Semiotext(e) / Native Agents |
Release date: |
August 2012 |
First published: |
2012 |
Authors: |
Chris Kraus
|
Dimensions: |
228 x 153 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
253 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-58435-113-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
LSN: |
1-58435-113-6 |
Barcode: |
9781584351139 |
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