Sexual Bloodby Mark Amerika
Taking off from the cult-success of his first novel, The Kafka Chronicles, Mark Amerika's breakthrough second novel, Sexual Blood, is a wild trip through the dark side of America's media-manipulated consciousness. His main character, Mal, an alternative rock musician, has a strange encounter with the Medicine Woman which causes him to hallucinate in a fantasy land populated by all of his former lovers. Mal, hoping to repent for all of the emotional damage he's caused in the past, seeks a magic transfusion that will turn him into a compassionate human being; this is when he enters the realm of the Sexual Blood. Charged with a sensual language not seen since Henry Miller, Amerika's mix of grunge rockers, reality hackers, expatriates and guerilla artists opens up in an erotic world lost in a theater of cruelty.
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What others are saying about the book
"The real counterculture is not gone. Mark Amerika is proof of that. Here we have a writer who unravels his male heterosexuality as throughly as any post-feminist, who's willing to make disturbing accusations against mainstream culture, while simultaneously wrestling with postmodernity."-Philadelphia Inquirer
"Amerika has taken the classic structure of the novel, run it through a postmodern mixer and poured it into a form that most resembles the brain patterns of a video game junkie about to beat his high score."
-Denver Post
"[Amerika]... makes you see the universe and language like you've never seen them before. The outcome of these breathless heteroglossic strobes is part Leyner-ed Ginsberg, part Acker-ed Burroughs, part some kind of mutant Dexadrined Beckett."
-American Book Review