Iterations of Lilith and Adam: An Alien’s Memoir by Chuck Richardson

Chuck Richardson writes like he’s the conductor of a chorus of demons. Hallucinatory and searing, Iterations of Lilith and Adam pounds away at your equilibrium until your only choice is to let go, accept your fate, and let Richardson be your guide. I tore through this book and my only disappointment occurred when the music stopped when I had read the last word. Take a chance on a book that is original in both thought and structure and you’ll be rewarded with an experience you likely won’t soon forget.

—Dave Megenhardt, author of Dogs in the Cathedral and North of Portsmouth

Reading Chuck Richardson will help your eyes grow muscles. His novel Iterations of Lilith and Adam: An Alien’s Memoir is ripping with the urgent juxtapositions of words and images not normally seen together, and the effect is not only disarming, but devastating. His characters are tethered together and meet in painful collisions that cannot be turned away from. They make each other pawns in one another’s games, but (or because), as Richardson says, “If you refused your pawnship, you were dangerous.” Richardson’s is a taut prose that captures the exigencies of modern life with honesty, and thus, with pain both administered and received. Sentences such as “If I had a hole in my chest you'd want to poke your finger in it” and “Boxing her in liberated him” slap the reader into attention and, at key moments, into wide-eyed alarm. The prose is every bit as relentlessly intense and driving as the work of Celine or Artaud. Wow! Respect!

—Eckhard Gerdes, author of the novels Marco & Iarlaith: A Novel in Flash Fictions and White Bungalows, and publisher at Journal of Experimental Fiction

Chuck Richardson parodies porn capitalism with its objectification, obsession with body parts, and inability to consider the whole person. Assembly-line sex, incest, and violence mark a world where characters look for religious transcendence through taboo-breaking debauchery. Richardson writes this terrifying, funny and excessive novel with precision and economy. A bracing, and too-real read.

—Jefferson Hansen, author of 100 Hybrids

Chuck Richardson is the author of several books of fiction and poetry from BlazeVOX.

Book Information:

· Paperback: 256 pages
· Binding: Perfect-Bound
· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books]
· ISBN: 978-1-60964-345-4