Artificial Light: Little House on the Bowery Series

Description

In 1994, a young woman named Fiat Lux donates 21 notebooks full of her writing to a university library then disappears. It's only later that her close relationship with a well-known rock musician who has recently committed suicide is discovered, and the notebook's contents become the subject of growing fascination, conjecture and gossip. The latest instalment in Dennis Cooper's Little House on the Bowery series, Artificial Light may well be the first American novel to successfully treat the alternative rock scene of the 1990s as a subject for serious literature.

James Greer, a novelist and screenwriter, has written for Spin, Tennis Magazine, Sunfish and Holy Breakfast and Paris Hilton. He is also the author of Guided by Voices, A Brief History: 21 Years of Hunting Accidents in the Forests of Rock 'n' Roll. Dennis Cooper is the author of Period and Frisk published by Serpent's Tail and My Loose Thread, published by Canongate among other titles.

"Fiat Lux gleams like an onyx from a vivid and darkly mythical world. She is impossible to forget and her skewed cynicism and solipsistic melancholy linger long after you've turned the final page. Greer's writing is lean and poetic, shot through with sagacious observations and demented humor, but at the heart of his strange semi-sci fi world there is a huge human tenderness, moments of heart-rending lyrical beauty, and a rabid, breathtaking imagination." - Helen Walsh, author of Brass"