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The Warhol Gang

by (author) Peter Darbyshire

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Initial publish date
May 2011
Category
Literary
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781554680771
    Publish Date
    May 2011
    List Price
    $17.99

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Description

Trotsky works for a neuromarketing company that scanshis brain to test new products. Only his name isn’t reallyTrotsky -- that’s a code name he’s forced to use at work. Andthe products aren’t real -- they’re just hologram prototypes.Trapped in an increasingly unreal world that leaves him hauntedby hallucinations, Trotsky goes in search of something genuine.Instead, he finds Holiday, a wannabe actress who fakes accidentsfor insurance settlements but who dreams of stardom.She leads him into an underground society of anti-corporateactivists and into a series of dangerous encounters, one ofwhich turns deadly. Discovered by the media, they are dubbedthe Warhol Gang. At first Holiday and Trotsky embrace theirnotoriety and fame, but they’re forced to confront their owndesires and needs -- and differences -- when the Warhol Gangtakes on a life of its own and the body count rises.

The Warhol Gang is a black comedy for anyone who’s everbeen trapped in an endless mall or fantasized about taking revengeon everyone in the office.

About the author

Peter Darbyshire is the author of Please, winner of the ReLit Award for best alternative novel of the year and the Ontario Arts Council’s K.M. Hunter Award for best new book. The Warhol Gang is Darbyshire’s second novel. He has lived in Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver. Visit him online at peterdarbyshire.com.

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Editorial Reviews

?One of the finest, and most important, Canadian novels in recent memory” — Edmonton Journal

?A violent, darkly comic satire of our media-saturated society” — Globe and Mail

?Puts the dead back in deadpan" — Montreal Gazette

?A nightmare that will linger for days” — Telegraph Journal

"Entertainingly bizarre futuristic tale of loneliness” — Winnipeg Free Press

?A disorienting (and chest-thumping) take on consumer culture” — Eye Weekly

"Denis Johnson stomping Chuck Palahniuk into William Gibson while Kurt Vonnegut cheers him on" — Bookninja

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User Reviews

Meh

This book felt like I was witnessing an acid trip by reading about it. It was weird, really weird.
I read the reviews on the back of the book before reading the story and saw things like, 'satire', quoted. I didn't find any satire qualities in it at all. Unless my understanding of the term is wrong, but there was no comedic parts. Not satire or otherwise. Zip. Zilch. Nada.
It reminded me of that movie, Six Degrees of Separation, only odder and forever separated. It just never came together for me.
I like the gruesome nature of the story. I just wish the majority wasn't so strange.

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