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A Novel
ISBN: 979-8285524762
ODYSSEY MEETS OBSCENITY IN RICHARD CRAVEN’S BRISTOL—A CITY OF FADING SPLENDOUR, BROKEN MYTH, AND THE UNMISTAKABLE WHIFF OF SOMETHING GONE VERY WRONG.
After a night spent as the front end of a pantomime horse in the Startling Farter, dissolute aristocrat Lord Snatch fails to return home to … er … Squattocrat Towers and the loving embrace of his wife, the fragrant poshtitute Kelly Snatch.
Drawing on the Odyssey but refusing its redemptions, Odour Issues replaces gods with ideologues, trials with punitive enemas, and heroism with flatulent defiance. It is an epic clogged with paperwork and metaphor, stained by ritual and rot, and propelled by a language that veers from the exalted to the excreted without apology.
Ambitious, baroque, and gleefully impure, Odour Issues advances Craven’s project to resurrect classical form in an age unworthy of it—and to see what leaks out in the process.
Richard Craven is a British-Canadian former academic philosopher who has spent the last twenty years in Bristol. Since leaving academia, he has dedicated himself to writing mordantly satirical literary fiction and the resurrection of formal verse for a 21st century readership. Odour Issues is his fifth book, following Bile, Amoeba Dick, Pretty Poli, and The Senseless Counterfeit.
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