Peckinpah: An Ultraviolent Romance
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| Author | D. Harlan Wilson |
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| Cover artist | LeMat & Danny Evarts |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fantasy, Horror, Metafiction, Irrealism, Bizarro |
| Publisher | Shroud |
Publication date | 2009 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 116 |
| ISBN | 978-0-9819894-2-6 |
| Preceded by | Blankety Blank: A Memoir of Vulgaria |
| Followed by | They Had Goat Heads |
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."[1]
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