Oliver Poges Lives! by Max Handley (.PDF)
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Oliver Poges lives! by Max Handley
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Overview: “My name is Oliver Wendell Poges and this year I would have been fifty-three years of age.. . .After completing this letter to you I shall blow my head off with a pistol which is concealed beneath the mattress.“
Thus begins one of the six letters that make up this remarkable novel about the most unsuccessful man in the world. Oliver Poges tries to kill himself six times. Every time he tries—he poisons, gasses, hangs, shoots, and burns himself—something goes wrong. Every time he fails, he finds he must face himself again—and an increasingly complex reality.
Even before publication Oliver Poges Lives! has been the talk of literary circles. Some people call it the blackest black humor ever published; others have found it sad, poignant, and certainly brilliant.
Leslie Thomas, author of The Virgin Soldiers, writes:
“Oliver Poges Lives! is quite staggering. grotesquely funny and horrifyingly absurd, and yet with an awful reality about it. The writing has beautiful touches, tender and flowing. This novel has the first mark of an author who shows more than a suggestion of genius.”
Britain’s most influential advance reviewer, Whitefriar, says:
“It could sweep the American campuses like a prairie fire. Handley’s talent is as unmistakable as Nabokov’s and Durrell’s. And just as unpredictable.”
Oliver Poges Lives! is two things: Second, an extraordinary reading experience. And first, it reinforces our sometimes foggy conviction that life may be worth living after all.
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Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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