Suspect device: a reader in hard-edged fiction

Stewart Home

Serpent's Tail, Sep 17, 1998 - Fiction - 242 pages

In Suspect Device, Stewart Home has gathered together a collection of fiction from a new generation of British writers who are blurring the boundaries between high-brow literature and pulp fiction. Hard-edged writers who are not afraid to cross the line violate every middle-brow notion of good taste and use sexual violence and violent sex to hack their way to a world without any social norms. A celebration of the physical - something usually rejected as non-literary, as a 'suspect device' - runs through this writing; lust, murder, magic and chaos are the predominant themes. Toxic, blunt, shocking and highly readable, Suspect Device includes writing by John King, Stewart Home, Berthold Bluel, Tommy Udo, Steven Wells, amongst others.

Contents

• Vegan Reich Neil Palmer: 8
• The Suicide Note Ted Curtis: 32
• St Andrews Arena Bertholt Bluel: 43

Bibliographic information

• Title: Suspect device: a reader in hard-edged fiction
• Author: Stewart Home
• Editor: Stewart Home
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail, 1998
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Feb 29, 2008
• Length: 242 pages
• Subjects: English fiction; Fiction / Anthologies; Fiction / Anthologies (multiple authors); Fiction / General; Short stories, English