At summertime in Purgatory, the stench of bodies is thick. Beat cops and junkies, technocrats and experimental treatments.
When there is no cure for a person, you make a new person and cure them.
“In Ian Townsend’s Purgatory the matter-of-factness of his writing is so ingenious and handy and he is such a great poker-faced magician with narrative that the effect is both riveting and sublime.” –Dennis Cooper
At summertime in Purgatory, the stench of bodies is thick. Beat cops and junkies, technocrats and experimental treatments.
When there is no cure for a person, you make a new person and cure them.
“In Ian Townsend’s Purgatory the matter-of-factness of his writing is so ingenious and handy and he is such a great poker-faced magician with narrative that the effect is both riveting and sublime.” –Dennis Cooper