…as someone who’s reading Hey Boy right now, I can squarely and enthusiastically recommend it to all of you. So use your local time today to celebrate and read/look and ideally buy Armando’s aka A.W.W.’s novel and festively note the start of a no doubt stellar oeuvre to come. ~Dennis Cooper
BEWARE HE WHO IS THE PROTAGONIST OF THIS TALE OF THE FACT OF FICTION AND THE FICTION OF FACT AND WHOM WILL BE KNOWN AND PERHAPS OR PERHAPS NOT REMEMBERED AS A AND FOLLOWED THROUGH HIS AND EVERYONE ELSE’S EMPTY EXPERIENCES IN THIS PLACE MOST CALL THE WORLD AND IN WHICH SUCH EMPTY EXPERIENCES WILL INCLUDE IMPOSED EXISTENCE AND ALSO OF COURSE YOUTH AND BEAUTY AND SEX AND MONEY AND SUBSTANCES AND POP MUSIC AND DESTRUCTION AND SELF DESTRUCTION AND OBSESSION AND ANNIHILATION AND EXPENSIVE CLOTHES AND JEWELRY AND MC MANSIONS AND POWER AND POWERLESSNESS AND RAPE AND BLOOD AND PISS AD SHIT AND CUM AND GLORIOUS DEATH AND NECROPHILIA AND CANNIBALISM AND TORTURE AND SADISM AND MASOCHISM AND SELF IMPORTANT WANNABE ARTISTS AND OTHER SUCH DIVERSIONS DEVISED TO TRY TO MASK THE MEANINGLESSNESS ALL BATTLING TO BE EITHER TRUE OR LESS TRUE.
Beyond bestowing a sense of possession or speaking in tongues to the narration, what Bremont’s repeated relentlessness succeeds in achieving, however, is making the scenes of absolute horror blur together with the moments of the mundane, conflating the two. By interspersing sexual violence and pure violence with the dull blankness of running a bath or reading, Bremont reveals the sheer mundanity of horror… ~Filthy Dreams
Imagine the Iliad written via high postmodernism, though, structurally. If William S. Burroughs had taken a crack at The Metamorphosis instead of Ovid. Transgressive in all the best ways. For a small book, this makes a helluvan impact. I can’t wait to see more from Bremont in the future. ~J. Warren, author of Unbalanced Mercy
Hey Boy is a fever dream of a novel of a sentence. Loopy, depraved, literate in its illiteracies, fiercely cruel and facile, wonderfully unhinged. Reads like Andrew Cunanan’s lobotomized nightmares filtered through Delany’s Hogg. ~Gary J. Shipley, author of Dreams of Amputation
What Goodreads reviewers are saying:
Disturbing and artful. A 100 page long sentence featuring the casual horrors of a boy called A. This book was impossible to put down and left me feeling both at a loss and impressed. Just WOW ~Dreary
…a fierce, unrelenting work of the grotesque… ~RB
I enjoyed the fuck out of this little fucker, also because I’m a sucker for prose that manages to be experimental and push boundaries form- and style-wise but do so without ever becoming difficult, and really, I just gorged my way through this single 100-page sentence. ~Nikolaj Lange
A W W BREMONT IS A MEMBER OF GENERATION Y AND AND HEY BOY IS HIS FIRST NOVEL.
