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The Gospel of Anarchy Paperback - 2011

by Justin Taylor

Taylor, a new voice that readers--and writers, too--might be seeking out for decades to come ("New York Times Book Review"), proves the critics right in his dark and mesmerizing debut novel.


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"A feverish, fearless writer." --Christine Schutt, author of All Souls, finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize

"The Gospel of Anarchy is a beautiful, searching and sometimes brutally funny novel. Justin Taylor writes with fierce precision and perfect balance." --Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask

Following his critically acclaimed short story collection Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever, Justin Taylor's mesmerizing debut novel explores the eccentricities, insights, and unexpected grace found in a motley crew of off-beat anarchists, and their quest to achieve utopia in a crumbling Florida commune. In the vein of Chris Adrian, Padgett Powel, and Hunter Thompson, Taylor delivers a shrewd, cerebral, and often wickedly humorous vision of reality on every leaf of the mirthfully absurd The Gospel of Anarchy.

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In landlocked Gainesville, Florida, in the hot, fraught summer of 1999, a college dropout named David sleepwalks through his life--a dull haze of office work and Internet porn--until a run-in with a lost friend jolts him from his torpor. He is drawn into the vibrant but grimy world of Fishgut, a rundown house where a loose collective of anarchists, burnouts, and libertines practice utopia outside society and the law. Some even see their lifestyle as a spiritual calling. They watch for the return of a mysterious hobo who will--they hope--transform their punk oasis into the Bethlehem of a zealous, strange new creed.

In his dark and mesmerizing debut novel, Justin Taylor ("a master of the modern snapshot"--Los Angeles Times) explores the borders between religion and politics, faith and fanaticism, desire and need--and what happens when those borders are breached.

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  • Title The Gospel of Anarchy
  • Author Justin Taylor
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Original
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, New York:
  • Date 2011-02-08
  • ISBN 9780061881824 / 0061881821
  • Weight 0.42 lbs (0.19 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.99 x 5.41 x 0.58 in (20.29 x 13.74 x 1.47 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Mysticism
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 12/01/2010, Page 24
  • Kirkus Reviews, 11/15/2010, Page 0
  • New York Times Book Review, 02/20/2011, Page 22
  • Publishers Weekly, 11/08/2010, Page 0
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