Troll by Dave Fitzgerald Paperback Book

Description: Troll by Dave Fitzgerald "A fiction debut in which an anonymous internet troll has a kind of quarter-life crisis. In this sprawling, rambunctious novel, Fitzgerald places his unnamed main character--an aimless, dissolute, perpetually horny online troll--on the cusp of a deep-seated personal dilemma...A cynical, misanthropic, foulmouthed novel that no curious reader will be able to put down."--Kirkus Reviews FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Here you are, shopping for books online because honestly, who has the energy to go out anymore? There are so many people out there, all buying the same Oprah-stickered crap to take to the coffee shop and Instagram next to their PSLs and blueberry muffins with one perfect bite taken out (or pretend to read until their latest Tinder date shows up). Its insufferable - the performance of it all - and everyone knows small presses are where the real literary vanguard is happening these days anyway. Well, maybe not everyone. But thats kind of the point of your being here, isnt it?You consider yourself something of a snob when it comes to your reading choices, though not in a pretentious way. Youre discerning is all. A serious person of uniquely refined and sophisticated tastes. Perhaps you felt drawn to click on this particular novel due to its provocative, all-caps title, or the cheeky contrast between its memeified typeface and classical-realist cover art. Perhaps you were intrigued by the blurbs and social media chatter invoking transgressive iconoclasts like Michel Houellebecq, Bret Easton Ellis, and Chuck Palahniuk. Or perhaps youre already an acolyte of this particular indie press and its stated mission of "degeneracy and degradation." You are, after all, the kind of unflappable literary deviant who actively seeks to have your ethical buttons pushed and your moral boundaries tested. The kind who enjoys nothing quite so much as a vicarious tramp through such aberrantly foul and filthy lives as you could never dare live yourself. And the kind who, even while wallowing in narcissism and self-loathing at your own complicity in same, feels such a profoundly personal anguish at the ongoing commodification of all art beneath the endless crush of content culture that you probably think this book is about you, (dont you? Dont you?).And quite frankly, if youve read this far, then maybe it is. Maybe you are exactly who this book is about. And by. And for. And as such, maybe you should give it a look, and let the world know exactly what you think. Its not like anyone reads anymore anyway. Theyre all too busy watching, and posting, and "liking" and "following" to notice a true original like you. So whats the difference? Why shouldnt you add your voice to the fray? After all, nothing matters these days quite so much as what you think about it. And as youve already mentioned, you do have excellent taste. Review Fight Club for the Twitter generation. A bold, subversive punk rock debut thats as incisive and provocative as it is hilariously uncomfortable.- Preston Fassel, author of Our Lady of the InfernoFlannery OConnor wrote that fiction is not an escape but rather a plunge into reality, and its very shocking to the system. This is an apt description of Dave Fitzgeralds audacious debut novel. Not for the faint of heart, Troll drags us into the murky, chaotic interior of its nameless protagonist, an unholy combination of Patrick Bateman, Rabbit Angstrom, and someone entirely new - a 21st century Frankensteins monster who is not only influenced by but stitched together from the body parts of pop culture, post-postmodern ennui, and the Id-gone-wild sadism of the faceless Internet. Worst yet is the knowledge that we not only helped create the monster, but we are complicit in its thriving.- Darrin Doyle, author of The Beast in Aisle 34Talk about your entertaining novels, Dave Fitzgerald has written one. I was all in, jumpshots that clip to cumshots, some near-bioluminescent glow, I felt like I was driving a hovercraft while wearing a ski mask, Troll is audacious, advanced, untried, and ground-breaking. Its the good shit. A novel where world-making involves sea breezes and briefcases, chicken nuggets and swingset sweethearts, social movements, and gutter water. Wooden alphabet blocks in the donation bin, analgesia, faecal matter, and human selfies on several fronts. Get all in with Dave Fitzgerald, its a wild ride, its a novel and a movie, and a stage production all in one. A dissident mythical peach. A darkly side-splitting odyssey. Get all in yhear.- Shane Jesse Christmass, author of Yeezus in FursShot through with strange beauty, Troll is an uncanny excursion into the warped musings of an unsympathetic troll. In the transgressive tradition of Irvine Welshs Marabou Stork Nightmares, it brilliantly explores casual depravity: of a culture entrenched in cynical consumption, the inhumanity of anonymity, disconnection, and the psychic stain of nihilism on the human soul.- Matthew Burnside, author of Wiki of Infinite SorrowsKoji Suzukis novel S describes a haunted spermatozoan that invades your body after reading a particular book. Troll does this. Fitzgeralds relentlessly uncomfortable use of the second person voice has the effect--rather than sweeping you into the book--of porting the book into you. Troll is indeed one haunted gamete.- John Trefry, author of PLATSA lacerating, remorseless trip to the bottom of the modern male psyche, shot through with incisive pop cultural insight of the highest and lowest order, and animated with withering humor, Svankmajerian grotesquerie, and an unwavering sense of genuine pathos as the search for love and meaning in the age of Tinder and Trump stumbles on, determined to resist the allure of the void no matter how futile such resistance may seem. It belongs on your grungiest, most dimly lit, and secretly best-loved shelf beside The Elementary Particles, A Confederacy of Dunces, and Martin Amis Money.- David Leo Rice, author of The New HouseDave Fitzgerald warned me before I began that, as a woman, I might find Troll hard to read. Purportedly a story about a misogynist stoner internet troll, Troll is undeniably nihilistic-but its not woman-hating. So, while its true that Troll devotes whole chapters to the excruciating minutiae of a professional potheads day, including detailed play-by-plays of the porn he watches and encyclopedic accounts of his bowel movements, the book is never so detestable that you want to put it down. Instead, weirdly, its driven by heart, and thanks to Fitzgerald Details ISBN1952600324 Author Dave Fitzgerald Pages 590 Publisher Whiskey Tit Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781952600326 Format Paperback Publication Date 2023-02-23 Imprint Whiskey Tit Audience General DEWEY 813.6 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:142025378;

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