69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess

By Stewart Home

Book Overview

This is where the novel has a nervous breakdown. Anna Noon is a twenty-year-old student with a taste for perverse sex involving an enigmatic older man and a ventriloquist's dummy. Anna lives in Aberdeen, Scotland, and her sex life revolves around the ancient stone circles in the region. The sublime grandeur of the stones provides a backdrop against which Anna is able to act out her provocative psychodramas.This is a book about the body in which the carnal is a manifestation of consciousness: a book in which it is virtually impossible to distinguish the ancient from the postmodern. Drawing on literary and continental philosophy, as well as pulp appropriations, 69 Things suggests that schizophrenia may well be the only sane response to capitalism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841953814
• ISBN13: 9781841953816
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

I love this book.

I realize that I am in limited company in loving this book. It is very strange and mixes (intentionally) poorly written pornography with rambling discussions of avant-garde literature, descriptions of the Scottish countryside, and ventriloquist's dummy who can think. There is sex and books and then more sex and more books. The plot is hilarious: a book within the book by a man who drags Princess Diana's corpse to ancient stone circles, a pair who drag a weighted ventriloquist's dummy to said circles to test the validity of said book. I write this positive review knowing that almost every reader will dislike this book. I eagerly await the day I meet someone else who loved it.