Red the Fiend by Gilbert Sorrentino

Red the Fiend

Gilbert Sorrentino

213 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

fiction reflective slow-paced
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This book is ideal for readers drawn to stark, psychologically intense explorations of how familial cruelty and societal hardship forge a person's destructive identity.

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A recasting of Sorrentino's Aberration of Starlight, this is the story of how a child becomes a monster: of how Red the boy becomes Red the Fiend. With an absent father who turns up only to drunkenly berate his son, and a grandmother whose aggress...

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