The Incurables

"The Incurables" by Bassoff, Jon, published by DarkFuse. The year is 1953. Disgraced in the psychiatric hospital where hed practiced for nearly thirty years, Dr. Walter Freeman has taken to traversing the country and proselyting about a very new kind of salvation: the transorbitol lobotomy. With an ice pick and a hammer, Freeman promises to cure depression and catatonia, delusions and psychosis, with a procedure as simple and safe as curing a toothache. When he enters the backwater Oklahoma town of Burnwood, however, his own sanity will be tested. Around him swirls a degenerate and delusional cast of charactersa preacher who believes his son to be the Messiah, a demented and violent young prostitute, and a trio of machete-wielding brothersall weaved into a grotesque narrative that reveals how blind faith in anything can lead to destruction. ** Review "A twisted tour through the asylum that Jon Bassoff callshis mind. The Incurables is filled with the mad and desperate,but ultimately it's the humanity that Bassoff finds in his broken charactersthat sets this novel apart. Don't get me wrong though, The Incurables iscertifiably insane--and I mean that in the best possible way." --Johnny Shaw, Anthony Award-winning author of BigMaria "Jon Bassoff's The Incurables practicallybleeds off the page with a dark poetry so intense, that you can still feel itafter your eyes are closed. It's the rarest type of novel that won't only sinkits teeth into you, it will leave you relishing the scar." --Todd Robinson, author of The Hard Bounce "With influences and homage as wide and varied as TheAlcoholics, Cuckoo's Nest , and "Murder in the Red Barn," TheIncurables oddly and most affectionately invokes Nick Cave--but notCave the singer, Cave the novelist--with its backwoods preachers, hellbentharlots, and dead-eyed dreamers. Think And the Ass Saw the Angel ,only superiorly written, carved by prose that cuts deep. Bassoff's crooked tripto hell is a powerful rumination on the beauty of the damned." --Joe Clifford, author of Junkie Love and Lamentation " The Incurables reads like an unhinged murderballad. In it, Bassoff's crafted a violent--and oddly affecting--ode to theoutcasts, the downtrodden, the broken, the grotesque, and the misunderstood." --Chris Holm, author of The Big Reap " The Incurables is terse, sparse and brutal, yetstrangely touching at times. Another winner from the Bassoff pen." --William Meikle, author of The Hole About the Author "Bassoff confrontsdirectly the traumatic stress disorder of our world today and tears off itsmask, even if the face must follow." --New York Magazine Jon Bassoff was born in 1974 in New York City and currentlylives with his family and a sickly greyhound in a ghost town somewhere inColorado. His mountain gothic novel, Corrosion , was called"startlingly original and unsettling" by Tom Piccirilli, a four-time winner ofthe Bram Stoker Award, and won the DarkFuse Reader's Choice Award for bestnovel. His surrealistic follow-up, Factory Town , was called "Ahallucinatory descent into an urban hell" by Bram Stoker award-winning authorRamsey Campbell. For his day job, Bassoff teaches high school Englishwhere he is known by students and faculty alike as the deranged writer guy. Heisa connoisseur of tequila, hot sauces, psychobilly music, and flea-bagmotels. Book details: published 2015. Order now on BookShops.in with fast, reliable delivery across India.