Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit
Mark Leyner
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit
Mark Leyner
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
The serious work of this comedy is to depict a father’s love for his daughter and their shared recognition that they won’t always be together.
... the weirdest and surely the most unsellable novel in an admirably weird career.
Bar Pulpo indicates the book’s intention of a singular entity with multiple tendrils operating in different directions to different ends. Which is a long way of saying The Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit is of a piece with Leyner’s body of work, while also baring an underlying sweetness as the author recognizes and updates the trope of the mad scientist with the daughter.
Experimental storytelling keeps Leyner's latest novel whirling around.
... [an] exhilarating and grotesque fever dream.