Consumed
The debut novel by the iconic film director. Stylish and camera-obsessed, Naomi and Nathan are lovers and competitors - nomadic freelancers in pursuit of sensation and depravity in the social media age, encountering each other only in airport hotels and browser windows. Naomi finds herself drawn...
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The debut novel by the iconic film director. Stylish and camera-obsessed, Naomi and Nathan are lovers and competitors - nomadic freelancers in pursuit of sensation and depravity in the social media age, encountering each other only in airport hotels and browser windows. Naomi finds herself drawn to the headlines surrounding Celestine and Aristide Arosteguy, Marxist philoso
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780007552245 (0007552246)
Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd
Pages no: 284
Edition language: English
Title: Consumed Who Wrote It? Depraved Dave Cronenberg, King of Venereal Horror, director of Scanners, Videodrome, The Brood, The Fly, as well as adaptations of unfilmable literary novels such as Naked Lunch, Crash, and Cosmopolis. Plot in a Box: A pair of tech savvy journalists (of the ye...
Damn. I was so looking forward to this, and really wanted to enjoy it, but it alternately bored me and annoyed me. Critics will likely herald it as deeply philosophical and esoteric, but I just found it to be pretentious, meandering, and desperate to be hip. There's no doubt the man has a flair fo...