Threshold
by Rob Doyle
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Pub Date Jan 23 2020 | Archive Date Jan 23 2020
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Description
A wild odyssey into universal truth from one of the most exciting and original voices in contemporary literature
Rob has spent most of his confusing adult life wandering, writing, and imbibing literature and narcotics in equally vast doses. Now, stranded between reckless youth and middle age, between exaltation and despair, his travels have acquired a de facto purpose: the immemorial quest for transcendent meaning.
On a lurid pilgrimage for cheap thrills and universal truth, Doyle’s narrator takes us from the menacing peripheries of Paris to the drug-fuelled clubland of Berlin, from art festivals to sun-kissed islands, through metaphysical awakenings in Asia and the brink of destruction in Europe, into the shattering revelations brought on by the psychedelic DMT.
A dazzling, intimate, and profound celebration of art and ageing, sex and desire, the limits of thought and the extremes of sensation, Threshold confirms Doyle as one of the most original writers in contemporary literature.
Advance Praise
‘A Pilgrim's Progress for our time’ Mike McCormack
‘Playful, potent, lurid, moving and fearless’ Lisa McInerney
'If this blurb were a movie title it would go like this: Threshold, or, how I learned to stop worrying (about what sort of novel this is) and love the narrator, whose brilliance and humour on drugs and literature, sex and boredom and death, leave me in awe' Rachel Kushner
'Threshold is extraordinary, quite unlike anything I’ve read before. It’s intimate, a revelation in the literal sense of that world, and yet it’s full of curiosity ... It’s fearless and challenging, inventive and compulsive, unique and utterly heartfelt. A book that will stay with me for a very long time. Masterful' John Boyne
'Ecce homo! A highly original attempt to engage, formally, with Nietzsche’s dangerous question: "how much truth can one mind [or novel] bear?”' Geoff Dyer
'Threshold is Rob Doyle's best book yet, a thrilling mutation somewhere between novel, essay collection, report, travelogue and confession. Doyle is a Romantic wandering in the post-sublime, a zealot without a cause, and his is a journey you don't want to miss' Chris Power
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781526607027 |
| PRICE | £14.99 (GBP) |
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