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The Bastard Pleasure
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By: Sean McGrady
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Published: February 2017
Pages: 153
Categories: Fiction
Language: English
Available as: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9781938103551
ISBN: 1938103556
ASIN: 1938103556

The Bastard Pleasure is a dark novel. It concerns itself with the mystery of identity and individuation, its destruction and the brutal way in which it is reclaimed in an emerging act of intuitive will and self-affirmation that is both obligated and free, in the circumstances, to be either good or evil. More plainly, it is about terrorism, in its concrete and seemingly incomprehensible forms, that eminently reveals existential """"border situations"""" in ambiguity and contradiction.

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