Peckinpah: An Ultraviolent Romance

Life in Dreamfield, Indiana, is a daily harangue of pigs, cornfields, pigs, fast food joints, pigs, Dollar Stores, motorcycles, pigs, and good old-fashioned Amerikan redneckery. The decidedly estranged yet complacent occupants of this proverbial small town go about their business like geriatrics in a casino... until their business is interrupted by a sinister gang of outsiders. Angry, slick-talking, and ultraviolent to the core, Samson Thataway and the Fuming Garcias commit art-for-art’s-sake in the form of hideous, unmotivated serial killings. When an unsuspecting everyman’s wife is murdered by the throng, it is up to Felix Soandso to avenge her death and return Dreamfield to its natural state of absurdity.

"A bludgeoning celluloid rush of language and ideas served from an action-painter's bucket of fluorescent spatter, Peckinpah is an incendiary gem and very probably the most extraordinary new novel you will read this year."

Alan Moore, author of Watchmen, V for Vendetta, From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

"D. Harlan Wilson's latest romp of a book, Peckinpah: An Ultraviolent Romance, proves that Wilson is either a genius or a madman, in all likelihood a crazed hybrid of both. A book that will delight Wilson's fans and mortally shock the uninitiated."

Eric Miles Williamson, author of Welcome to Oakland and East Bay Grease.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

D. HARLAN WILSON is an associate professor of English at Stick Figure University, where he received a triple Ph.D. in film studies, astrophysics and paleontology in 2005. Hundreds of his stories and essays have appeared in magazines, journals and anthologies throughout the world in several languages, and he is the editor-in-chief of The Dream People, a journal of irreal texts. His books include:

Pseudo-City

The Kafka Effekt

Stranger on the Loose

Dr. Identity

Farewell to Plaquedemia

Blankety Blank: A Memoir of Vulgaria and Technologized Desire

Selfhood & the Body in Postcapitalist Science Fiction

For more information on Wilson and his work, visit him online at www.dharlanwilson.com.