Fuckness -

Andersen Prunty

Atlatl Press

2011

208 páginas

6h 56m

ISBN-10: 0982628145

This darkly offbeat novel opens with the narrator, Wallace Black, as the target of the school bully’s violence. After suffering a horrendous beating, Black goes home to his equally abusive family. As a punishment for fighting at school, his mother straps a set of grotesque horns to the top of his head. He is unsure of where the horns came from. They have always been in the house. And they contain a power no one could have expected.

Let Andersen Prunty (ZEROSTRATA, MORNING IS DEAD, and THE BEARD) guide you through a sometimes hilarious, sometimes violent and terrifying coming-of-age Midwestern gothic novel.

Resenhas (1)

3 (Bom)

An overwhelming book

For most of the story I was literally thinking "What the fuck is going on here?"
This is a highly depressing, weird, but still lightly fascinating book.
I kept wondering what was gonna happen to Wallace and the book itself had some unexpected turns.
However, that wasn't enough to keep me binge-reading and it took me months to finish this read.
It turns out that in the end I figured that I actually liked Wallace Black and was hoping for a decent ending for him. Isn't it weird how we can get attached to all that fuckness?