In the deft hands of Andrew Lafleche, the boundaries of fiction are challenged with inimitable abandon-A Pardonable Offence is a collection of short stories brimming with intensity and accented by an unexpected dark humour.The ten stories range from the whimsical to the terrifying-online dating fails; alienation amidst a bizarre and dehumanised world; a portrait of the suffocating oppression consuming modern life; a disturbing short illustrating the blurred landscape separating circumstance and choice.The final tale in this collection, a blackly humorous portrayal of a patient's stream of consciousness, reveals an agonised consideration of violence directed toward faceless victims and sexual relations which border on criminal. It's a dark revelation of an over conscious individual whose psyche flirts with a level of paranoia skirting schizophrenic tendency.Appalling, thought-provoking, and entertaining, A Pardonable Offence is Andrew Lafleche claiming his voice: extreme and provocative. This collection will delight his growing number of fans and new readers alike.

A Pardonable Offence

Literature & Fiction

Lafleche, Andrew

Genre Fiction

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In 1971 Dr. Theodore Kaczynski rejected modern society and moved to a primitive cabin in the woods of Montana. There, he began building bombs, which he sent to professors and executives to express his disdain for modern society, and to work on his magnum opus, Industrial Society and Its Future, forever known to the world as the Unabomber Manifesto. Responsible for three deaths and more than twenty casualties over two decades, he was finally identifed and apprehended when his brother recognized his writing style while reading the 'Unabomber Manifesto.' The piece, written under the pseudonym FC (Freedom Club) was published in the New York Times after his promise to cease the bombing if a major publication printed it in its entirety.

Industrial Society and Its Future

Politics & Social Sciences

Kaczynski, Theodore John

Social Sciences

Set in Niagara in the early 2000's, this novel is a raw confrontation of sexuality and addiction in a modern coming-of-age narrative. High school is over, an ex-girlfriend is pregnant, and Troy Brinkman is spiralling out of control. On moving out of his parent's home, Troy enters a landscape of limitless entropy where everybody drinks copious amounts of alcohol, snorts mountains of cocaine, and once Ecstasy is discovered, swallows as many pills as they can get their hands on. When he's not seething for his next high, Troy cruises parties, strip-clubs, and bars for action in a desperate attempt to avoid coming to terms with his best friend's attempted suicide. In this binge-life, Troy recognizes his impending doom and tries to renew feelings for his ex-girlfriend, Danielle, his sole through-line that connects Troy to who he was before he became who he is. It's this struggle which may lead to Troy's own destruction.

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