A coming-of-age story that rushes by in a kind of lyrical scream, the novel cannot entirely live up to its considerable pretensions. Despite leanings toward the absurd, the discrete chapters tend to read more like short stories, and by the end they hardly cohere into a unified whole. Through an often sordid and savage phantasmagoria, Jackson, also a playwright, blurs the boundaries between the real and the imaginary, creating an unsettling allegory of growth into adulthood.
By the end of Jeff’s surreal odyssey, at the age of 18, his years of wandering and exile may be over when he learns of his mother’s death. The episodic chapters track the stages of Jeff’s life before and after his break: at six, he experiences transcendent beauty while hunting when he’s 12 he falls in with a colony of disaffected youths who ritually burn a corpse at 14, while homeless, he and some other teens pursue a messianic guitar player and a year later, he falls in with a sadistic older man who tries to take control of his body and his life. If you have not received an order receipt, or shipping confirmation email, please check your junk, spam, or promotions folders and be sure to add to your safe list.The protagonist of Jackson’s macabre and experimental debut novel is Jeff, the son of an abusive mother who runs away from home at the age of 11 and leads an itinerant existence, haunted by his childhood memories. You will receive an email when your order has shipped with a tracking number.
Shipping is calculated by the weight of the product, any shipping overages will be refunded at the time of mailing. If you order other products with your preorder, they will all be shipped together when the preorder is shipped to you. Preorders are shipped as soon as we receive the products to us. 100 page book, paperback, printed on blue paper. During our bi-annual sales events, shipping times can be 2-3 weeks after orders are placed. Though a standalone work, Novi Sad is also a sister book to Jeff Jacksons acclaimed novel Mira Corpora. Orders generally ship the next shipping day after your order is placed, however, sometimes we receive dozens of orders in one day and we split orders between the next two shipping days. Please understand we are a two-person shipping operation and do our best to get your goods to you as quickly as possible. Ritualcravt ships two-three times per week.
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