Suicide Blonde
Introduced by Maggie Nelson
by Darcey Steinke
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Pub Date 17 Jan 2019 | Archive Date 17 Jan 2019
Canongate Books | Canongate
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Description
Jesse is a twenty-nine-year-old adrift in San Francisco’s demi-monde of sexually ambiguous, drug-taking outsiders, desperately trying to sustain a connection with her bisexual boyfriend. She becomes caretaker and confidante to Madame Pig, a grotesque, besotted recluse. Jesse also meets Madison – Pig’s daughter or lover or both – who uses others’ desires for her own purposes, and who leads Jesse into a world beyond all boundaries. As startling, original and vital as it was when first published, Suicide Blonde is an intensely erotic story of one young woman’s sexual and psychological odyssey, and a modern cult classic.
Advance Praise
‘Like so many naturals with a singular vision and an unyielding gift, Steinke wrote a perfect book nearly right out of the gate, one which both emanates from its time and will last the test of time’
MAGGIE NELSON
‘Hallucinatory, dystopian . . . a disturbing, poisonous fable of the dire consequences of derailed passion’
New York Times
‘A provocative tour through the dark side’
Vanity Fair
‘A shocking and electrifying journey into the inferno of sexual obsession’
Details
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781786894410 |
| PRICE | £8.99 (GBP) |
Featured Reviews
Roman C, Reviewer
Smoky rooms, dangerous streets, sleazy sex, lit by neon, to a soundtrack of the 'Liebestod' from Tristan and Isolde, edgy, intense, brutal, where love is tainted but a heart might still be pure, drugs and dreams, purple prose, urban and urbane, Baudelaire meets Kerouac via Anais Nin and Sylvia Plath, love and lust, dirt and desire, experience and annihilation, hypnotic, seductive, lyrical, moody and melancholy, a hymn to loneliness and failed connections, modernity and loss - gorgeous, gorgeous!
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