Sorrow Like Sour Candy: Stories by Chandler Morrison
Autor Chandler Morrisonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 oct 2026
In Sorrow Like Sour Candy, Chandler Morrison, author of Dead Inside and American Narcissus, delivers a collection of stories where ecstasy and ruin are inseparable. Humanity becomes an infestation spreading across the cosmos. Lovers contaminate each other in search of transcendence. Desire twists into obsession; obsession dissolves into ash. Beneath Los Angeles lights and motel gloom, bodies and souls unravel in prose both brutal and hypnotic.
At once literary and vicious, lyrical and profane, these stories strip glamour down to its bones and expose the rot beneath. Morrison writes with the precision of a scalpel and the ferocity of a blade dragged across glass, capturing characters who are beautiful, broken, and unforgettable.
Beauty curdles. Desire corrodes. Love tastes like something you shouldn’ t swallow but do anyway.
Everything ends. The aftertaste endures.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781639512416
ISBN-10: 1639512411
Pagini: 186
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Dead Sky Publishing
Colecția Death's Head Press
ISBN-10: 1639512411
Pagini: 186
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Dead Sky Publishing
Colecția Death's Head Press
Recenzii
"It’s very difficult to describe a Chandler Morrison novel—you kind of have to experience them for yourself to get what he’s doing—but it is quite easy to say that this is one of the most entertaining, thoughtful, and just plain weird novels you’re likely to read this year."
“No blurb will be able to fully convey how great this book is. Chandler Morrison’s voice is unique, stylish and powerful. Required reading for fans of Brett Easton Ellis, Tom Piccirilli or Chuck Palahniuk.”
"In the background, huge wildfires approach Los Angeles, but the characters American Narcissus focuses on are too self-centred to even notice or care. Why does literature give such deeply unpleasant characters such as these so much page time and why are we endlessly fascinated with them? I do not know the answer, but within the boundaries of a Chandler Morrison novel, I would expect nothing less. Bleak, unforgiving, compelling and grimy as hell."
"Morrison delivers the story in a way that readers feel like they’re experiencing the blackouts with the characters. And even though they are all horrible and have no redeeming qualities, that drives the point home – no amount of drugs, sex, or alcohol can cure the hollowness that one might feel within themselves. Even though some of the dialogue was certainly off-putting and offensive, it was equally thought-provoking. The commentary challenges readers to find the deeper meaning while not losing sight of the big picture. I could see early on that these losers wouldn’t get their happy endings – but I couldn’t stop reading until I learned just how badly things would end. Nor could I predict that I would finish the book with my jaw dropped."
"If ALONG THE PATH OF TORMENT blew the doors off (which it did), American Narcissus will bring the whole dang house down (which it does). Seriously, those who continue to dismiss and disparage Morrison as just another shock-value gross-out type? You gotta get over that. He is the real deal, a true talent, a literary master craftsman who knows exactly what he’s doing, and does it with sardonic wit, absolute skill, and laser precision."
“#thighgap is a story of abyssal redemption. A frozen palace of beautiful and broken people. It’s brutal and tragically sexy and doesn’t shy away from any of its dark interiors.”
"When I wasn’t reading this book, I wanted to be. I need stories like this from Morrison until the end of time."
"A master of iconoclastic satire and deftly turned plot points, American Narcissus showcases author Chandler Morrison's genuine flair for originality and the kind of narrative storytelling style that keeps and holds the reader's rapt attention from start to finish."
"American Narcissus is Morrison at his scathing, satirical best...A darkly comic search through the spiritual decay of LA--and our modern age--where there may be no soul to find at all."
"American Narcissus is a beautiful tragedy in which Morrison's unrelenting voice shines through...This is the book he was meant to write."
“Chandler Morrison is of the most visceral and uncompromising writers of his generation, and Dead Inside is a nightmarish, unforgettable work of fiction.”
"Exquisite in its bleakness and compulsively readable, American Narcissus will speak to anyone who has ever freewheeled towards oblivion, chosen toxicity as a mode of comfort, or sought love and meaning from the worst possible source."
"With American Narcissus, Chandler Morrison once again shows us why he's one of the best contemporary LA novelists and chroniclers of our disconnected, disaffected modern existence. No amount of wealth, fame, drugs, or sex can fill the emptiness at the cores of Morrison's gorgeous yet emotionally stunted cast. A timely meditation on the horror of having it all."
“No blurb will be able to fully convey how great this book is. Chandler Morrison’s voice is unique, stylish and powerful. Required reading for fans of Brett Easton Ellis, Tom Piccirilli or Chuck Palahniuk.”
"In the background, huge wildfires approach Los Angeles, but the characters American Narcissus focuses on are too self-centred to even notice or care. Why does literature give such deeply unpleasant characters such as these so much page time and why are we endlessly fascinated with them? I do not know the answer, but within the boundaries of a Chandler Morrison novel, I would expect nothing less. Bleak, unforgiving, compelling and grimy as hell."
"Morrison delivers the story in a way that readers feel like they’re experiencing the blackouts with the characters. And even though they are all horrible and have no redeeming qualities, that drives the point home – no amount of drugs, sex, or alcohol can cure the hollowness that one might feel within themselves. Even though some of the dialogue was certainly off-putting and offensive, it was equally thought-provoking. The commentary challenges readers to find the deeper meaning while not losing sight of the big picture. I could see early on that these losers wouldn’t get their happy endings – but I couldn’t stop reading until I learned just how badly things would end. Nor could I predict that I would finish the book with my jaw dropped."
"If ALONG THE PATH OF TORMENT blew the doors off (which it did), American Narcissus will bring the whole dang house down (which it does). Seriously, those who continue to dismiss and disparage Morrison as just another shock-value gross-out type? You gotta get over that. He is the real deal, a true talent, a literary master craftsman who knows exactly what he’s doing, and does it with sardonic wit, absolute skill, and laser precision."
“#thighgap is a story of abyssal redemption. A frozen palace of beautiful and broken people. It’s brutal and tragically sexy and doesn’t shy away from any of its dark interiors.”
"When I wasn’t reading this book, I wanted to be. I need stories like this from Morrison until the end of time."
"A master of iconoclastic satire and deftly turned plot points, American Narcissus showcases author Chandler Morrison's genuine flair for originality and the kind of narrative storytelling style that keeps and holds the reader's rapt attention from start to finish."
"American Narcissus is Morrison at his scathing, satirical best...A darkly comic search through the spiritual decay of LA--and our modern age--where there may be no soul to find at all."
"American Narcissus is a beautiful tragedy in which Morrison's unrelenting voice shines through...This is the book he was meant to write."
“Chandler Morrison is of the most visceral and uncompromising writers of his generation, and Dead Inside is a nightmarish, unforgettable work of fiction.”
"Exquisite in its bleakness and compulsively readable, American Narcissus will speak to anyone who has ever freewheeled towards oblivion, chosen toxicity as a mode of comfort, or sought love and meaning from the worst possible source."
"With American Narcissus, Chandler Morrison once again shows us why he's one of the best contemporary LA novelists and chroniclers of our disconnected, disaffected modern existence. No amount of wealth, fame, drugs, or sex can fill the emptiness at the cores of Morrison's gorgeous yet emotionally stunted cast. A timely meditation on the horror of having it all."