Bøger af Tennison Long

With his evocative, stylized prose, apocalyptic intensity, and apparent boundless imagination, Tennison Long's fourth and final novel, On Becoming Yesterday's Actors, suggests a scanning of the narrator's mind, a Luddite Gen Xer who sifts through life via varying digressions, while encompassing the differences of more recent generations through a documentarian interspersing of news articles, psycho analysis, historical documents, and observations of his own private surroundings. Under the threat of his child's abduction, along with a mysterious serial killer spree connection, and the disappearance of a local newscaster, this post-modern meta-manifesto is a second half of life analog to digital coming of age story, chronicled within the ambient noise of a turbulent arrival to the gates of an ever-louder and unrelenting tomorrow.

When a group of very much alive but publicly dead celebrities decide to take down a global cabal of the political elite, it's up to the gang's leader to uncover the necessary clues through a web of conspiracies, blackmail and sleight of hand to deliver the underworld its demise. From the highways of the New Mexico desert to the jungles of Cambodia, from a Caribbean island to the halls of Washington DC, the story mixes tales of the human condition with action packed adventure, leading to a thrill ride that leaves you questioning your own perception of most everything that is known...

textual is a novel that remaps the territories of fear and loneliness achieving between its two geographically-separated protagonists a long distance pillow talk that is set against the backdrop of a growing pandemic, told through self-indulgent dialogue via text message, the latest work by Tennison Long is performance art in the most rarefied of styles, a mini epic of love and compassion in times of ever worrying isolation.