The Second Substance by Anne Lardeux Paperback Book 9781552454398

Squatters at a rural gas station try to find freedom and build something new on the ashes of our petrocivilization in this sensual novel amp10amp10amp10amp10A community of outsiders takes over an abandoned gas station They spend their days ripping up asphalt drinking beer and eating hot dogs and wandering through woods and towns in search of new ways of living People come and go a charismatic landscaper Italian anarchists a policewoman travellers A teenager drifts into homelessness And The Girl With No Name keeps a journal of her attempts to meet new people and sleep with them sex that is quotnot a sidelinequot but the motivating force in a story she is struggling to understandamp10amp10Neighbors grow hostile An investigation threatens the community Tension builds between the surface violence of amp8220normal lifeamp8221 and the attempt of these outsiders to experience freedom and build something new on the ashes of our oiladdicted society amp10amp10amp10amp10With a character borrowed from Agnamp232egraves Vardas Vagabond and inspiration taken from Anne Boyeramp8217s writings Anne Lardeuxamp8217s highly original debut assembles elements of poetry film and visual arts into an exuberant choral novel an ode to the daughters of fire and to the poetry of the body Often funny sometimes raunchy consistently surprising never flinching The Second Substance heralds an important new voice in Quebec literatureamp34A revolutionary diary that parses the lines of sex and power in...