Will the last person to die turn out the lights?
Life will always find a way
Here’s the jacket copy for The Warhol Gang. Links to order the book online are below. I’ll update them as I find out about new ones. Also, post about The Warhol Gang and you could win a prize!
My name is Trotsky. It’s not my real name though. It’s a code name they gave me at the office. I work for a neuromarketing company. They lock me in a pod to monitor my brain’s responses to imaginary products. But I’ve developed a problem. I hallucinate those products outside of the pod. At night I go to accident scenes to watch people die. It’s the only thing I know is genuine.
I have a girlfriend named Holiday. That’s her real name. She’s part of the resistance. They live in a secret town under the mall and raid stores to survive. I don’t know what they’re resisting.
There’s this cop who’s a little like me. We film fake snuff videos about his life. Holiday helps me with the videos because she’s an actress. She stages accidents for insurance money. She wants to be the star of security camera films.
One of the cop’s snuff videos goes wrong and the media discovers us. They call us the Warhol Gang. Then people start to die. The Warhol Gang just gets more popular as the body count rises. Everybody wants to be a part of it. But once you’re in the Warhol Gang, you can’t get out.
To buy The Warhol Gang:
- Buy on Amazon.ca
- Buy on Chapters.Indigo.ca
- Buy on McNally Robinson
- Buy on Kobo
- Also available on Apple’s iBookstore for the iPad and iPhone
- Interview with the National Post
- The Warhol Gang makes the National Post’s list of the most anticipated books of 2010
- Some deadly love from Bookninja
- “A violent, darkly comic satire of our media-saturated society”: The Globe and Mail
- “A disorienting (and chest-thumping) take on consumer culture”: Eye Weekly
- An “entertainingly bizarre futuristic tale of loneliness”: The Winnipeg Free Press
- Interview with Books on the Radio
- My guest posts at the National Post
- “A nightmare that will linger for days”: The Telegraph-Journal
- “I’m the x-ray technician”: Interview with Maisonneuve
- “One of the finest, and most important, Canadian novels in recent memory”: Edmonton Journal review — reprinted in the Calgary Herald, Vancouver Sun, and Saskatoon Star-Phoenix
- “It’s like No Logo on acid”: Underground Book Club
- “A biting satire of consumerism, capitalism, affluenza, and fame”: Quill & Quire review
- “Mad at the Mad Men”: Interview with the National Post
- “Get Me Rewrite”: An essay at the Globe and Mail in which I discuss the editing process for The Warhol Gang — and why I switched it from third person to first person without telling anyone.
- “Every word is there for a reason”: Review from critic Ryan Bigge, who also throws in a review of Please he wrote for the Toronto Star
- “Puts the dead back in deadpan”: Review from the Montreal Gazette — reprinted in the Ottawa Citizen
- “A strange and original world”: Eye Weekly review
- “A rallying point for a new generation of young fans crying out for a satire to call their own”: Shelf Monkey review
- Joyland (one of my favourite scenes from the book)
This book isn’t available in an ebook format is it? I’d love to buy it but everything I buy now is for the Kindle!
Comment by May — July 21, 2010 @ 9:21 am
Coming soon.
Comment by peter darbyshire — July 21, 2010 @ 10:01 am
The Warhol Gang is an engaging piece of writing. It’s pitched at exactly the same level all along and means almost nothing. It simply engages the reader until it ends. It’s a piece of imagination cut raw and laid out for money. It is about something: the digitisation of humanity, but nobody knows what that means. Things are moving so fast that the author has no idea how the book will be sold, let alone its significance. The text is an identity game, with plenty of guns and shooting and morphing. It’s a good read.
Comment by Rowland Morgan — August 17, 2010 @ 10:13 am