Peckinpah: An Ultraviolent Romance
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Peckinpah: An Ultraviolent Romance (2009) is a short critifictional novel by American
author D. Harlan Wilson
. It is a series of vignettes
, folk tales and pseudobiographical sketches that coalesce into two stories, one about a man named Felix Soandso who seeks vengeance on a gang of exploitation film
villains after they kill his wife, the other about the life of filmmaker Sam Peckinpah
, for whom the book functions as a kind of deranged, schizophrenic ode. While the novel did not receive any awards, it met with acclaim and was endorsed by Alan Moore
, who called it "a bludgeoning celluloid rush of language and ideas served from an action-painter's bucket" and "an incendiary gem."
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author D. Harlan Wilson
D. Harlan Wilson
D. Harlan Wilson is an American short-story writer and novelist whose body of work has been associated with the genres of irrealism, science fiction, fantasy, horror, bizarro fiction, megalofiction, splatterpunk, absurdism, literary fiction, ultraviolence, and postmodernism...
. It is a series of vignettes
Vignette (literature)
In theatrical script writing, sketch stories, and poetry, a vignette is a short impressionistic scene that focuses on one moment or gives a trenchant impression about a character, an idea, or a setting and sometimes an object...
, folk tales and pseudobiographical sketches that coalesce into two stories, one about a man named Felix Soandso who seeks vengeance on a gang of exploitation film
Exploitation film
Exploitation film is a type of film that is promoted by "exploiting" often lurid subject matter. The term "exploitation" is common in film marketing, used for all types of films to mean promotion or advertising. These films then need something to exploit, such as a big star, special effects, sex,...
villains after they kill his wife, the other about the life of filmmaker Sam Peckinpah
Sam Peckinpah
David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpah was an American filmmaker and screenwriter who achieved prominence following the release of the Western epic The Wild Bunch...
, for whom the book functions as a kind of deranged, schizophrenic ode. While the novel did not receive any awards, it met with acclaim and was endorsed by Alan Moore
Alan Moore
Alan Oswald Moore is an English writer primarily known for his work in comic books, a medium where he has produced a number of critically acclaimed and popular series, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell...
, who called it "a bludgeoning celluloid rush of language and ideas served from an action-painter's bucket" and "an incendiary gem."
Cover Description
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 smalltown 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.External links
- Official D. Harlan Wilson Website
- Review by Jonathan Parrish at Nightblade Magazine
- Review by JoSelle Vanderhooft at The Pedestal Magazine
- Inverview with Wilson in Bull Spec
- Interview with Wilson at 3 A.M. Magazine
- Interview with Wilson at Dark Scribe Magazine
- Interview with Wilson at The Black Glove