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| Dermaphoria | 
 enlarge | Author: Craig Clevenger
Publisher: MacAdam Cage
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 62064
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 214
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 1596921021
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781596921023
ASIN: 1596921021
Publication Date: September 8, 2006
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Bailed out of jail and holed up in a low-rent motel, amnesiac Eric Ashworths only memory is a womans name: Desiree. With steadily increasing doses of a strange new hallucinogen, Eric finds that the drug allows him to reassemble his past in broken fragments. But as he begins to lose touch with the present, his distinction between truth and fantasy begins to crumble, creating a world where divisions between love and loss, violence and tenderness, and fact and fiction are less discernible than they ought to be.
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 Spiders and Bugs November 23, 2008
Lots of spiders, bugs, and colors in Clevenger's second novel, Dermaphoria - maybe too many for a person without the prerequisite delusional mindset to follow the story which is in there somewhere. Briefly, our hero, Eric Ashworth, is a master alchemist who creates varieties of methamphetamines and hallucinogens for an illicit market that constantly craves new designer spinoffs of the traditional favorite mind benders. Eric is hounded by his bosses who put up the money for Eric's r & d and he is haunted by the image of the beautiful image of Desiree, although we're never quite certain who Desiree is. But that's Ok because Eric can hardly figure it out either. As a result of a drug production explosion, Eric weaves in and out of amnesia and delusional euphoria.
On the other hand, Clevenger is a terrific writer. I read his first novel, The Contortionist, twice. I loved it and even wrote a letter to him saying so (to which he graciously responded). Although this is not The Contortionist, Clevenger still manages to teach us about a world that very few of us can possibly understand and gives us some great lessons in chemistry that our school teachers never touched on. You can have a good experience reading Dermaphoria once you set aside the need for a story to move, in linear fashion, from one scene to the next.
 Twisty Sizzler! July 21, 2008
This book wouldn't leave me alone. From the very first page I was hooked. What is real? What is drug-induced fantasy? And is there a place to stand between the two? I don't want to say much about the story--the hooks have already been written above--but I will say the the writing is beautiful and shifty and noir, and this is an author worth reading. And watching!
If anyone close to you has been addicted... June 5, 2008
To any sort of hard drug, you MUST read this book.
A shockingly large improvement in writing style and story development since his last book (Contortionist's Handbook, which is also excellent). Dermaphoria is a love story, and an epic coming of age piece all rolled into one. Maintaining a clear style despite a clouded narrator's perspective and using ever sharpening wit, Clevenger does well keeping the reader in tune with the story as the narrator races to bring back memories lost in a lab accident while being pursued simultaneously by the police and the group that funded the drug lab that blew his memory to smithereens. While slowly revealing how all this happened Clevenger gracefully shifts in and out of ponderings on the morality and philosophy of drug use. A must read.
His second is just as good as his first. October 28, 2007
Really loved this one too. CC is a vivid, intense writer, one of my all-time favorites.
absolutely brilliant June 4, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Captivating diction, brilliant imagery, and I especially love the jaded & cynical monologue of the protagonist. Clevenger effectively brings the real mechanics of paranoia to the forefront of the reader's attention; and not in a stupid or adolescent manner. He brings you into the fear and sickness, the world falling apart around you. The enemy always watching, the codes they speak, the patterns they manipulate into your reality.
He makes me want to throw out all my manuscripts and never write again. Terribly jealous, esp w/ the use of bugs & chemistry as the metaphors for reality breakdown.
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