“It’s a beautiful day. It’s always a beautiful day in Los Angeles. You stop noticing after a while; the monotony of perfection. I am intensely aware of my own discomfort… the ache in my bones… we sit on the grass next to a sleeping winehead. The filthy pigeons circle us like ragged junkies mooching for change. An empty crack vial, trodden underfoot and shattered, glints like stardust.”
NOTRE DAME DU VIDE [first published in 2009 by French publisher 13e Note Editions] is presented in English for the first time via Vicon Editions. This short story collection – which introduced Tony O’Neill to French readers – won acclaim from the likes of Le Monde who said, “[with NOTRE DAME DU VIDE] O’Neill stakes his claim as a possible 21st century successor to the drunken blues of Bukowski or the space-age junkie fantasy of William Burroughs,” and Bâtard Sournois who compared the book to, “Lou Reed at his most dissolute, Trocchi at his most angry and poetic.”
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“Notre Dame du Vide shows a writer at the top of his game: filthy, funny, illuminating and degenerate. Like Lou Reed at his most dissolute, Trocchi at his most angry and poetic, with this collection Tony O’Neill shows that he is a writer to be reckoned with… the only question is whether he will survive long enough to fulfill his (considerable) promise?”
– Bâtard Sournois Magazine, Paris
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