Cataract City by Craig Davidson
Davidson goes for "literary" and, in my opinion, gets it often (but not always). I understand he writes
with two other pseudonyms: horror and one other genre. I'd be curious to read one of those.
Cataract City is partly Stephen King's "The Body" and partly... Chuck Palahniuk? I read somewhere that the two writers are similar. I've only read Fight Club and I wasn't remembering it being much like Cataract City.
As a local, it was very cool to recognize many of the places such as Memorial Arena (where I too watched professional wrestling as a boy).
Favourite quotes:
"That strong childhood magnetism that draws one boy to another -- sometime that magnetism abruptly switches polarities, flinging those same boys away from each other, setting them on new trajectories."
"There are moments you realize that when you carry through a given plan of action, you're gonna come out a changed man. Won't be noticeable on the outside but you'll never be the same behind the eyes."
"For eight years I drank too much, nursed a sullen emptiness and waited for something to change, all the while knowing this was the single biggest lie people told themselves: that change will eventually come on its own if you wait patiently enough for it."
Cataract City is partly Stephen King's "The Body" and partly... Chuck Palahniuk? I read somewhere that the two writers are similar. I've only read Fight Club and I wasn't remembering it being much like Cataract City.
As a local, it was very cool to recognize many of the places such as Memorial Arena (where I too watched professional wrestling as a boy).
Favourite quotes:
"That strong childhood magnetism that draws one boy to another -- sometime that magnetism abruptly switches polarities, flinging those same boys away from each other, setting them on new trajectories."
"There are moments you realize that when you carry through a given plan of action, you're gonna come out a changed man. Won't be noticeable on the outside but you'll never be the same behind the eyes."
"For eight years I drank too much, nursed a sullen emptiness and waited for something to change, all the while knowing this was the single biggest lie people told themselves: that change will eventually come on its own if you wait patiently enough for it."
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