Luke Davies

Set in the author's native Australia, a controversial debut novel reminiscent of Trainspotting follows a young couple's descent into slavery to heroin, which forces them to make money by any means necessary. Original.

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james cao

There are times love would seem to be the only word capable of describing the frightening physics of this momentum. There is desolation and then there is each other.

We didn't know there was less than eighteen months to go. We had no idea we would move to the country, and come off methadone, and try not using heroin, and go crazy, and move back to Sydney, and dribble toward good-bye. I guess there are times, in retrospect, when you can see that ignorance is bliss.

And then I feel-bang! just like that-that it would be better to be dead. What the fuck is going on here? Life is a circle and death will make it a line, snap it suddenly away from repetitiveness, fling it out into the void, beyond geometry, where at least there's relief from the friction of things? What the fuck is going on?

Adrift. At times it seems that I am floating in the beauty of docility. Pulling the needle from my arm, I succumb again and again to the luscious undertow of the infinite spaces between atoms. My arm an estuary of light in which all rivers gather.

In this way we were like dogs, who in the bliss of being patted forget completely the stress of being recently hit. 

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