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In "The Axe" a literature professor arrives at the door of one of his students in the middle of the night. On his way he has stumbled (with a flask of whiskey) through the pouring rain, stopping in a city park to vandalize the statue of an angel, tormented by the image of his life's work, ninety-seven poems he has left behind in flames in his apartment. The student has turned in an assignment (which the professor has brought along in his briefcase): a carefully wrapped hatchet. In "Piercing" a teenage runaway, Marie-He'lene, seeks to escape the mediocrity of her small-town family life, only to end up in a very different kind of urban "family," a cult of dominance and body piercing presided over by Kevin, the maimed and orphaned son of a millionaire. They live in a church converted into luxury condos, with a strange ageless and toothless woman who plays guardian to him and his test-tube son Raphael: a 20 year old computer nerd working on an MA thesis on securitization. In "Anna on the Letter C" a lonely, virginal typist transcribing the "c" words for a dictionary project lives just blocks away from the church where Rasputin-like Kevin holds court. But her world is not inhabited by the angels and demons of "Piercing." Taking pity on a middle-aged stalker (a seedy, sweating chain-smoker, retired from his job as a projectionist in soft-core porn cinemas), she invites him to her apartment for tea. As they sit, awkwardly making conversation, she confesses that she is a virgin. Her feelings for him waver between repulsion and compassion. His desire for her is palpable as heat lightning flashes in the summer night.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Plays, playscripts

• Full title: Piercing
• Author: Larry Tremblay
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• EAN: 9780889226456
• ISBN: 0889226458
• ID: 04755193
• Publisher: Talonbooks
• Weight: 184 g
• Dimensions: 215 × 139 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. November 2010

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