- Title:
- Unsoul’d
- By:
- Barry Lyga
- Pages:
- 253
- Rating:
- 3
UNSOUL’D: A DIRTY LITTLE FABLE
Randall Banner is thirty-five years old, a middling mid-list author who yearns for more of everything: More attention. More fame. More money. More fans.
Then, one quiet morning, he meets the devil while pounding away at his laptop at his usual coffee shop. Soon, a deal is made, a contract is signed, and Randall is on his way to fame and fortune unlike any he ever imagined.
What follows is a bawdy, hilarious, yet harrowing tale of one man, one devil, and a deal that could change the world.
“We’re all bad.” “Is that true?” I asked the woman cuckolding her boyfriend with another woman’s boyfriend in her roommate’s bed.
Vulgarity aside, and that’s quite an aside because of the way this story works, I enjoyed this. There’s a lot of humour beneath the obvious, which is relieving, and indeed some masculine truths attacked head on. It’s also a Human success story, which is pretty neat, and amused me in several places in a quick sort of a way. Not a bestseller, but with enough to warrant me having read it.