Involuntary Bliss

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Publication Year:
2016

ISBN-13: 9781771662512

<i>Even in death, he said, the novella’s power would bind us together, all of us who had read it, appealing as it did equally to our emotions and our intellects.</i><br><br>A bond between three friends forms over a mutual fascination with an obscure Peruvian novella and is fractured by an accidental death. From the streets of Montreal's Plateau and Latin Quarter to the ruins of Machu Picchu, award-winning author Devon Code's <i>Involuntary Bliss</i> traces this tragic affinity with dark humour and linguistic verve.<br><br>Over one hazy weekend in late August, an unnamed narrator visits his troubled friend James following a gap of many months. The two young men are set adrift in the city by way of James's memories, which flow out of him as lush set pieces&mdash;an affair, a stint volunteering at a children's hospital, a striptease show&mdash;assembling a picture of James's haunted life in the wake of their close friend's death.<br><br>By turns comic, erotic, tender and harrowing, this freewheeling narrative sees Montreal's bohemians and biker gangs entwine with psychotropic shamanic practices in the mountains of Peru, in a tale of friendship and mortality as unpredictable as it is true to life.