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Who are the Enigmatic Polygeneration? They were christened by Tom
Bradley in chapter four of Put It Down in a Book, as follows:
Digital connectivity has rendered physical locality irrelevant and
made polyversality the new thing . . . Once space has been erased
by the miracle of email, so has time, in terms of its effects on
the human frame . . . In a creation where particles can spookily
act upon each other at a distance of quadrillions of light years,
the Seven Ages of Man are as days in the week, and a generation can
span an open-ended number of decades . . . I'll invent a name
that's doubly apt, as these writers produce electricity as well as
useful heat.
In the middle of the Adriatic Sea during Neronic times, in
Hiroshima Cathedral's demon-infested basement, in the royal
elephant stables of a Hindustani town three millennia ago, in a
Tokyo AIDS hospice disguised as a derelict kindergarten, on a yacht
anchored off a South China leper isolation colony, and on top of a
skull-shaped and -textured geothermal formation in the
prune-colored midnight. Celebrated author Tom Bradley's latest
short story collection Hemorrhaging Slave of an Obese Eunuch will
take you to all of these places.
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Elmer Crowley (Paperback)
Tom Bradley; Illustrated by David Aronson, Nick Patterson
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R373
Discovery Miles 3 730
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Bless me, curse me. For better or worse, my fallopian fall into
matter. . . After making careful preparations to ensure himself a
proper reincarnation, the dying ALEISTER CROWLEY flubs one syllable
of the magickal incantation . . . and comes back as ELMER FUDD.
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Destroyed (Paperback)
Justin Aerni; Foreword by Tom Bradley; Commentary by Adam Layne
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R628
Discovery Miles 6 280
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Felicia's Nose (Paperback)
Tom Bradley; Illustrated by Nick Patterson; Carol Novack
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R371
Discovery Miles 3 710
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BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATED EDITION "Family Romance is the latest
novel by Tom Bradley, notorious hermit of Kitakyushu, Japan. It's a
monstrosity of the imagination as if a Burroughs virus hijacked the
machinery of Finnigan's Wake and replicated itself as a
litera-teratus. Illustrator Nick Patterson joins Bradley in the
procedure with ninety disturbing images of Bosch-like detail you
don't want to see on the way home from your local head shop." -
John Ivan-Palmer, Exquisite Corpse "Tom Bradley is one of the most
exasperating, offensive, pleasurable, and brilliant writers I know.
I recommend his work to anyone with spiritual fortitude and a taste
for something so strange that it might well be genius." -Denis
Dutton, Arts & Letters Daily "Tom Bradley is one of the most
exasperating, offensive, pleasurable, and brilliant writers I know.
I recommend his work to anyone with spiritual fortitude and a taste
for something so strange that it might well be genius." -Denis
Dutton, Arts & Letters Daily "I tell you that Dr. Bradley has
devoted his existence to writing because he intends for every
center of consciousness, everywhere, in all planes and conditions
(not just terrestrial female Homo sapiens in breeding prime), to
love him forever, starting as soon as possible, though he's
prepared to wait thousands of centuries after he's dead." -Cye
Johan, Exquisite Corpse Journal "The contemporaries of Michelangelo
found it useful to employ the term 'terribilita' to characterize
some of the expressions of his genius, and I will quote it here to
sum up the shocking impact of this work as a whole. I read it in a
state of fascination, admiration, awe, anxiety, and outrage." -R.V.
Cassill, editor of The Norton Anthology of Fiction
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Family Romance (Paperback)
Nick Patterson, Tom Bradley
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R1,543
R1,462
Discovery Miles 14 620
Save R81 (5%)
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FULL COLOR EDITION, with 90 artworks by Nick Patterson. "It might
well be genius."* Strap on your leather harness and climb aboard
This is one wild, mad ride of a novel you won't find in any theme
park within our universe. Family Romance merges two extraordinary
talents into a single chimera of horror, comedy, raunch and
lyricism. The inimitable Bizarro fiction writer, Tom Bradley,
penned a story based on the fantastic Deviant art of Nick
Patterson. The result is a surreal novel with art so evocative, you
may find it oozing into your dreams. Or your nightmares. "The
contemporaries of Michelangelo found it useful to employ the term
"terribilita" to characterize some of the expressions of his
genius, and I will quote it here to sum up the shocking impact of
this work as a whole. I read it in a state of fascination,
admiration, awe, anxiety, and outrage." - R.V. Cassill, editor of
The Norton Anthology of Fiction "Tom Bradley is one of the most
exasperating, offensive, pleasurable, and brilliant writers I know.
I recommend his work to anyone with spiritual fortitude and a taste
for something so strange that it might well be genius." - *Denis
Dutton, Arts & Letters Daily "I tell you that Dr. Bradley has
devoted his existence to writing because he intends for every
center of consciousness, everywhere, in all planes and conditions
(not just terrestrial female Homo sapiens in breeding prime), to
love him forever, starting as soon as possible, though he's
prepared to wait thousands of centuries after he's dead." - Cye
Johan, Exquisite Corpse
Here are three screenplays collected in print for the first time,
from the prolific bizarro genius Tom Bradley. Each screenplay is
adapted from a novel of the same name. LEMUR - damnation and
salvation in the food services industry. VITAL FLUID - rival
hypnotists stage a bizarre series of showdowns. BOMB BABY - a
manhunt through Hiroshima's lightless crannies. ' . . . brilliant,
evocative writing. Bizarre imagination set free. An enviable
skill.' -Consuelo Boland
The bomb baby was in Hiroshima, in utero, at the moment of the
glamorous detonation. As a result of prenatal exposure to gamma
rays, he is tiny and mentally deficient, but his physical vigor is
unimpaired. Living on a makeshift raft on the river that runs
through town, he only comes ashore to disrupt high-tone weddings at
Hiroshima Cathedral. It's a hobby for him. He disappears soon after
spoiling a Yakuza wedding. This doesn't sit well with the leading
lights of the expatriate community, who've adopted the bomb baby as
a mascot. They dispatch Sam Edwine, a reluctant and inefficient
American slob, to search "Boom Town's" sordid and musty places, of
which there is a wide assortment...
Tom Bradley received his novelist's calling at the age of nineteen.
He climbed into the moonlit mountains around his hometown, where he
got an unambiguous vocation with physical symptoms and everything,
just like Martin Luther in the electric storm. He doesn't recall
being on acid at the time. He buzzed permanently off from America
in 1985, moved to Red China, and has lurked around the left rim of
the Pacific ever since, in a successful search for sinecures that
steal virtually no time and absolutely no mental energy from his
writing. Further curiosity can be indulged at tombradley.org
synopsis
Visit a relocation center for spastics, mental defectives and
political derelicts in the jungle outside Foo-Chow. Help prepare
Japan's Crown Princess for "bridal breach" in the Togu Palace.
Watch youngsters being exposed to elemental mercury in a Soviet
kindergarten. Poke around for uncollapsed blood vessels with a
junkie tart during High Mass in China's underground church. Learn
how to make a movie from absolute scratch using only stuff you can
find in the back yard.
Reviews
...a writer with a gloriously skewed and multitudinous
vision...
--Darran Anderson, "3: AM Magazine"
Tom Bradley is the libertine that Camille Paglia tries to portray
herself as, in order to keep her Jocasta fantasies at bay.
--Jonathan Penton, "When Spencer met Hannibal: Recreational
Cannibalism in the New American Century"
It takes a twisted sense of humor to appreciate this lunatic
scholar, degenerate Harold Bloom, and biblical madman.
--John-Ivan Palmer, "nthposition Magazine"
Tom Bradley is one of the most exasperating, offensive,
pleasurable, and brilliant writers I know. I recommend his work to
anyone with spiritual fortitude and a taste for something so
strange that it might well be genius.
--Denis Dutton, editor of" Arts & Letters Daily"
The contemporaries of Michelangelo found it useful to employ the
term "terribilita" to characterize some of the expressions of his
genius, and I will quote it here to sum up the shocking impact of
this work as a whole. I read it in a state of fascination,
admiration, awe, anxiety, and outrage.
--R.V. Cassill, editor of "The Norton Anthology of Fiction"
I tell you that Dr. Bradley has devoted his existence to writing
because he intends for every center of consciousness, everywhere,
in all planes and conditions (not just terrestrial female Homo
sapiens in breeding prime), to love him forever, starting as soon
as possible, though he's prepared to wait thousands of centuries
after he's dead.
--Cye Johan, "Critical Appendix, Fission Among the Fanatics"
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