Self-Murder
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491_9780982171028
A dark love story of obsessive fixation, perceptual disorientation, insomnia, and psychic seizures--with madness waiting in the wings.Do you dare to fall in love? asks the narrator of Self-Murder, and then answers by detailing an instance of attraction to a breath-stealing beauty which swiftly becomes an obsessive fixation, such that all else melts from his awareness, his sanity is stretched to its limits, and madness threatens to engulf him. Shifting emotional extremes, sensual excess, and prolonged sleep deprivation: all combine to erode the narrator’s tenuous hold on rationality and propel him into a somnambulistic waking state where the distinction between what’s real and imagined blurs, and he’s no longer able to be certain of how he’s behaving; without being aware of it, he may have committed murder.Self-Murder depicts a hallucinatory landscape of the mind and emotions, as terrifying as it is surprisingly and astoundingly beautiful, while probing the elusiveness of memory and difficulty of accurately apprehending our inner state of affairs--or of understanding the underlying motives of our actions.Reviews:Self-Murder is a fascinating and excellent psychological thriller readers wont be able to put down.--Midwest Book ReviewA phantasmagoria of unbridled lust, sexual obsession, and stealth madness, Robert Scott Leyse’s Self-Murder is a dazzling indictment of desire that brims with sensory imagery and moments of exquisite verbal beauty delivered by a narrative voice that is baroque but disturbing and more than a little reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe.--Gary Earl Ross, Edgar Award-winning author of Blackbird Rising: A Novel of the American SpiritRobert Scott Leyse channels Baudelaires Queen of Spades and Jack of Hearts, speaking darkly of dead loves, in this new book. He also reminds me of James Purdys notorious eccentricity. Theres plenty of middlebrow stuff if you want it. Self-Murder isnt that.--Kris Saknussemm, author of Private Midni
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