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The powers that be behind Snuggly Books and Occult Press have today announced the launch of a new imprint, Purple Bearded Uncle, and they've selected my short novel, PULP FIN DE SIÈCLE, as one of their two launch titles (the other being RUINATION IN BLOOM by Charles Schneider).
"Over the course of 24 hours, on a Spring day in Paris in 1893, seven archetypal figures of the “Yellow Nineties”—a priest, a Symbolist, a dandy, an actress, a whore, a diabolist, and a Decadent—drift into and out of each other’s lives, sometimes taking center stage, other times assuming bit parts. The resulting narrative mosaic created by these seven interwoven tales can thus be described as both the summation and the reflection of late 19th-century Parisian Decadentism re-mannered as a Neo-Decadent novel."
Written on-and-off over a long period (from 2019 to this year), this is the book I've sometimes in the past tongue-in-cheek referred to as being like MONSIEUR DE PHOCAS meets THE CANTERBURY TALES. It's target audience would be either people who are really into the writers of the 19th-century French Decadence, or those who might be curious about what that milieu was all about, in that I hope my book is a reasonable facsimile of the tropes and styles of the writers of that era (warts and all), while at the same time also being a reflection of my own aesthetics and interests.
Designed by Brendan Connell (and featuring sumptuous cover art by Aaron Lange), this is quite a fancy item: this hardcover edition is "thread-stitched and lithographically printed in Italy on rough-textured 140 g/m Italian paper, with 120 g/m Terra Rossa endpapers (made from 10% cotton fibres, virgin fibres and recycled fibres)." The cover, meanwhile, is "printed on white Fedrigoni Imitlin, with a similarly illustrated dustjacket printed on a 180 g/m clay-colored version of the same paper as the endpapers." Do we have a dustjacket? Yes, we have a dustjacket!
This edition is limited to 75 copies, so get it while it lasts!
https://purplebeardeduncle.com/pulp-fin-de-siecle/
