The Patient [Paperback]

S McWillie (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 16, 2007

There is something stark and menacing to say about disillusionment. Preachers and mothers, kind hearted they both are in their steads, warn impressionable youth of the dangers of losing faith or spending too much hope too soon. I spent everything so fast that the only recourse I had was in filling the very voids within my arteries with a species of worm, which only grows in the melons found in the West Saharan walls.

An unexplainable and unexpected side effect, which resulted from this discovery—that such creatures can live just as well under skin as under sand, is that in hushed carrier tones they speak to their host. I considered myself not infected, but blessed by the grace of a hideous nature from shoes. Upon returning to the states and dodging quarantine by hiding all of my new friends within the confines of my beard, I set out to hear their story—of a disgraced emperor whose closest were too enamored and fear struck to question any word he gave. I was that emperor, and this is my story.

“If you expected anything but pretentious mush out of McWillie, then you deserve whatever you get. One could derive a higher quality literary effort from a squirrel monkey infected with tertiary syphilis and set up with a methotrexate and wood alcohol IV. But that would at least have some”—Christopher Hughes

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Sean Alexander McWillie was born in Los Angeles. After a year of high school he left and didn’t come back. After his third year of studying philosophy at the University of California, Irvine, he had a lapse of judgment and woke up in Iraq with a bad headache.

Product Details

• Paperback: 222 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (August 16, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595464149
• ISBN-13: 978-0595464142
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,864,033 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Pinnacle of Neo-Post Modern Homoerotica, December 28, 2011

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M. Hickman (Long Beach, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Patient (Paperback)

S. McWillie's haunting evocations of the alienation of spirit in that blighted sprawl really resonated with me. It's refreshing to see a kindred soul who is not afraid to get down and dirty in the chains, as if to affirm in some sisyphian way our own societal bondage to a diseased culture. There's a special type of courage in confronting the mainstream ghettoization of homosexuality in its sphere of perverse fascist biopolitics.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Goldeen would approve, August 26, 2007

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Ioan L. D. - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Patient (Paperback)

The illest prose ever. Even more enjoyable then the methotrexate-fueled summer McWillie and I spent, or is it will spend?, in the Maldives. Or was it the Comoros? His style is impetuous. His art is impregnable.