So, yesterday was the official kick-off of the Keep Portland Weird festival here in Paris, which meant that I had a reading/screening in the...
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Once you turn the first page of Ms Kozek’s book you realize that you have genuinely crossed a threshold into a compelling world of street people, drugs, sex, crime, and most importantly, the world of Honey McGuiness. Honey is the hard-boiled, soft-hearted heroine of Threshold, and she keeps the reader asking for more.
This noir tale reminds one of the writings of Artaud and his theater of cruelty. The author investigates the bare, raw unconscious below the surface of our daily lives and fictions. This is much more than a noir novel….it is literature that shocks, provokes, and informs, but more than that, it makes us fall very much in love with Honey. I can’t wait to read the next book.
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Threshold: A Hard-Boiled Thriller by Bonnie Kozek
Dale Scott, January 5, 2009
Once you turn the first page of Ms Kozek’s book you realize that you have genuinely crossed a threshold into a compelling world of street people, drugs, sex, crime, and most importantly, the world of Honey McGuiness. Honey is the hard-boiled, soft-hearted heroine of Threshold, and she keeps the reader asking for more.This noir tale reminds one of the writings of Artaud and his theater of cruelty. The author investigates the bare, raw unconscious below the surface of our daily lives and fictions. This is much more than a noir novel….it is literature that shocks, provokes, and informs, but more than that, it makes us fall very much in love with Honey. I can’t wait to read the next book.