Author: Stewart Home
Series: Success and Failure Series
Catalogue No: PA-021
Price: 12.95 USD
ISBN: 978-0-9785564-5-7
Format: Paperback
Dimensions: 5″ x 7″
Pages: 96pp
Published: Sept 2015
Availability: Out of print
“…A bleakly humourous look at the moral bankruptcy of the institutional life of modern academia; it’s supposition, that the archetypal modern psychopath is no longer a Bateman-esque neo-liberal banker, but university pseud.”
—Felix L. Petty
About
One of the “Best Paperbacks of 2013” as noted by the Guardian.
Charlie Templeton, his wife Mandy, and student mistress Mary-Jane Millford survived the London terrorist bombings of 7/7, but history has yet to be made. To save the future of western civilization, Charlie, a schizoid cultural studies lecturer with a penchant for horror films and necrophilia, must fight the zombies of university bureaucracy and summon the will to become the last in a long line of mad prophets announcing the end of art.
Praise
"Much of the controversiality of [Stewart] Home is in the ragamuffin lines he draws: no literature, no high art, no serious music, no non-revolutionary politics, no white- orientated community buzz and so on. Like Poe rejecting old Europe, Home is forging a new continent for the modern, breaking with the new context we’re in, delineating a parallax vision of hallucinatory powers... [Mandy, Charlie & Mary-Jane] is not about devils, but is itself devilish. At the start I said what he’s out to do is go further than just be real; he’s out to be fundamental. Of course, it’s a masterpiece."
—3:AM Magazine
"Mandy, Charlie & Mary-Jane is a either a campus anti-novel or an anti-campus novel, or both. It is an anti-novel in the sense that it has no interest in the novel’s conventions. Characters are mere cyphers. There’s no ‘fine writing’ in its description. The anti-novel is relentless in its refusal of a redemptive dimension to the ‘literary’ as that which sets its petit-bourgeois readers above the world of capital and violence."
—Public Seminar
"...A bleakly humourous look at the moral bankruptcy of the institutional life of modern academia; it’s supposition, that the archetypal modern psychopath is no longer a Bateman-esque neo-liberal banker, but university pseud."
—Port Magazine
"...One of the great virtues of [Stewart] Home’s work is the way it forces us to address our own complacency."
—The Guardian
Selected Press:
The Guardian: “Best Paperback Books of 2013”
3:AM Magazine: “A Modern Original” by Richard Marshall
Public Seminar: “English Psycho” by McKenzie Wark
Port Magazine: “Stewart Home: Proletarian Post-Modernism” by Felix L. Petty
Glass Magazine: “Sketches of Home” by Benjamin Lovegrove
HTML Giant: “A New Kind of Education” by Maxi Kim
Metamute: “50 Shades of Rape” by Hestia Peppe
Author
Stewart Home is an English artist, filmmaker, writer, pamphleteer, art historian, activist, and internationally- acclaimed author. Home’s writings include Pure Mania (Polygon 1989), Slow Death (Serpent’s Tail, 1996), 69 Things To Do With A Dead Princess (Canongate, 2002), Tainted Love (Virgin Books, 2005), and Memphis Underground (Snowbooks, 2007). Between 2007 and 2010, Home was the commissioning editor of Semina, a series of acclaimed experimental novels from London art publisher Book Works, to which he contributed, Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie (2010). In 2016, Penny-Ante reissued Home’s cult classic, Defiant Pose, twenty-five years after its initial publication with an Introduction by McKenzie Wark and an Afterword by Home.