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OF TENDER SIN by David Goodis.
Alvin Darby awakens one night, aroused by the sound of a burglar in his home; he gets outta bed, opens the bedroom door, and steps thru a portal into an insane twilight zone that lasts till the end of the book.
There is no burglar, just ghosts who take the forms of all the females he ever loved, and all of them have platinum blonde hair since he went insane.
In a nutshell the book is an incest story involving Alvin and his sister, Marjorie. The sex isn't explicit and detailed, Goodis writes around it, tho what he writes leaves no doubt what theyre up to. Alvin has amnesia for the sex till the end of the book.
Goodis has a reputation for writing books that end badly. Some critics call his tales 'suicide notes.' This one ends OK for Alvin, the ghosts go away, and he resumes his average life, married and working for an insurance company. In between its a nail-biter, cuz you expect Alvin to fall into hell like normally happens in Goodis books.
http://www.pulpserenade.com/2009/01/of-tender-sin-by-david-goodis-gold.html
Alvin Darby awakens one night, aroused by the sound of a burglar in his home; he gets outta bed, opens the bedroom door, and steps thru a portal into an insane twilight zone that lasts till the end of the book.
There is no burglar, just ghosts who take the forms of all the females he ever loved, and all of them have platinum blonde hair since he went insane.
In a nutshell the book is an incest story involving Alvin and his sister, Marjorie. The sex isn't explicit and detailed, Goodis writes around it, tho what he writes leaves no doubt what theyre up to. Alvin has amnesia for the sex till the end of the book.
Goodis has a reputation for writing books that end badly. Some critics call his tales 'suicide notes.' This one ends OK for Alvin, the ghosts go away, and he resumes his average life, married and working for an insurance company. In between its a nail-biter, cuz you expect Alvin to fall into hell like normally happens in Goodis books.
http://www.pulpserenade.com/2009/01/of-tender-sin-by-david-goodis-gold.html
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