- Alienation (Social psychology), Fiction, Fiction, general, Mother-son relationship
Twenty-five-year-old Steven faces a bleak life with a sadistic mother and a job at a slaughterhouse where he is confronted with extreme violence and death.
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Contemporary, grave, bleak and spare.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Matthew Stokoe
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Spetember Press Books, Creation Books, Akashic Books
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781840680058
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First sentence
“Mother poured steaming fat on her face at six o’clock”
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