Archive for March 12, 2011
INCENDIARY by Chris Cleave
Imagine that you’re a working class Cockney mother with a husband who detonates bombs and a young son who is four years and three months old. You stave off your anxieties about the uncertainty of your life through mindless sex encounters. Eventually, you meet a neighbor – a journalist named Jasper – and, while your husband and son are at a soccer game, you invite him to your flat. At the exact same time you are in the throes of sexual abandon, there’s a massive terrorist bomb attack at the London soccer stadium, vaporizing over one thousand people – your husband and son among them. How do you go on? How do you live with the remorse?
March 12, 2011
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Tags: 2011 PB Release, 21st-Century, Contemporary, epistolary, Terrorism · Posted in: Unique Narrative, United Kingdom, guilt
