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ABSURDISM...
DARK HUMOUR...Satire...

POSTMODERNISM at its destructive best.

Travel through fragmented human landscapes, where truth is conditional, and sanity is a matter of opinion.

‘It isn’t for the ordinary to ponder the extraordinary – there’s enough to do to wrestle with the everyday.’ 

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In a literary world that often takes itself too seriously GARY N. LINES is a rare writer who reminds us that sometimes the best stories come from those who don’t have a choice but to be different.

         “My name is Dunleavey de Boston, an author of note, bon vivant, wealthy. When I was asked to describe GARY N. LINES, writer of postmodern literary fiction, I extemporised that he captures the foibles of the human condition with prose that interrogates characters like a well-honed blade ripping through a friend – and one word immediately came to mind...annoying. Bloody annoying. Gary may be a better writer than I am...annoying, right? He refuses to follow industry conventions, while the rest of us scramble to keep up....even more annoying. His writing is insightful, funnier, and more absurdly brilliant than most....how annoying is that? In short, GARY N.LINES is profoundly annoying. But, annoyingly, he is profoundly talented.”

– Dunleavey de Boston

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What Will
Happen to You?

IDENTITY: A LIE?

ABSURDITY: YOUR TRUTH?

EXISTENCE: SURVIVAL

Through a sweltering night in the city, he considers the weight of existential angst caused by the question of his identity. He grapples with the apocryphal question that plagues the streets below: What Will Happen to You?

He has no clue. 

Will he find his way out, or will he succumb to the madness of the urban jungle?

"Postmodernism... meta fiction... unreliable narrators... the unreliable author... I really enjoyed this. And I was fascinated by the way it folds in on itself... bleak, certainly, but also adroit. It is complex and layered...Intriguing and destabilising... An epic read and dare I say a demanding read."

— Sarah Sutherland, Actor, Producer

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Are You
Living a Lie?

TRUTH: A CASUALTY

DECEPTION: THE NORM

CONSEQUENCES: INEVITABLE

Doing Life in Paradise

In a city that suddenly changes its name to Paradise, Doing Life in Paradise examines the absurdity of life and the human condition, viewed through the foibles and fragility of hyper-real characters, each trapped in their own psychological prison, struggling for survival.

 

The author’s provocative style and acerbic wit weaves its way through the discussion of hope, coincidence, synchronicity and the absurdity of life in a city that calls itself Paradise but provides no redemption for either the characters or the unobservant reader.

Can paradise genuinely exist when the soul is lost?

Critical Acclaim for
doing life in paradise

“The author’s descriptions of the characters are raw, and we are told intimate details that we might not want to know. As in the real world, each one is heroic at times and weak at times. I suspect that every reader will have a favourite character and will root especially hard for that one.  The ending is intriguing, and some may be tempted to read the novel a second time just to find the clues they missed.” 

— Myra Gamble, San Francisco, CA.

       Reviewed for The Paris Readers Circle.

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