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Reilly Reynolds tries to be a good person. Life has given him a series of obstacles - mental illness, self-loathing, a genetic predisposition to drug abuse - but Reilly does his best to work through these problems as he struggles to maintain to the one principle he believes fundamental: "goodness." The novel moves through surrealistic scenes as it follows Reilly's gradual descent into suicidal misery and, eventually, nihilism, as his morals are stripped away and the final traces of his sanity are lost.
Attempting to deal with broken love and a society he is unable to understand, Reilly continually finds himself questioning the purpose of life, and trying to answer the biggest question of all: Is life really worth living?
Reilly's ordeals are bizarre, sometimes shocking, yet alarmingly real. He fights with an amputee at his father's funeral, spends time in a mental institution, takes LSD at a dog fight, and looks on passively as a man commits suicide.
Set in the Deep South and featuring a cast of characters that include a quadriplegic crack addict, a deranged small town mayor, and a sado-masochistic bi-sexual, Everyday Madness forces its readers to confront the darkest aspects of life, yet provides a
lens of satirical, dry humor to make the sometimes off-putting material macabrely appealing to the reader.
Written shortly after the author experienced a nervous breakdown (partly, he claims, due to the experiences portrayed in this novel), Everyday Madness has been dubbed a "Mostly True Story." It straddles the lines between fiction and reality, and leaves the reader asking, "Could this possibly be real?"
Reilly Reynolds tries to be a good person. Life has given him a series of obstacles - mental illness, self-loathing, a genetic predisposition to drug abuse - but Reilly does his best to work through these problems as he struggles to maintain to the one principle he believes fundamental: "goodness." The novel moves through surrealistic scenes as it follows Reilly's gradual descent into suicidal misery and, eventually, nihilism, as his morals are stripped away and the final traces of his sanity are lost.
Attempting to deal with broken love and a society he is unable to understand, Reilly continually finds himself questioning the purpose of life, and trying to answer the biggest question of all: Is life really worth living?
Reilly's ordeals are bizarre, sometimes shocking, yet alarmingly real. He fights with an amputee at his father's funeral, spends time in a mental institution, takes LSD at a dog fight, and looks on passively as a man commits suicide.
Set in the Deep South and featuring a cast of characters that include a quadriplegic crack addict, a deranged small town mayor, and a sado-masochistic bi-sexual, Everyday Madness forces its readers to confront the darkest aspects of life, yet provides a
lens of satirical, dry humor to make the sometimes off-putting material macabrely appealing to the reader.
Written shortly after the author experienced a nervous breakdown (partly, he claims, due to the experiences portrayed in this novel), Everyday Madness has been dubbed a "Mostly True Story." It straddles the lines between fiction and reality, and leaves the reader asking, "Could this possibly be real?"
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