Clinton Caward – Love Machine
January 20
Clinton Caward, a fantastic writer who’s had stories published in Southerly, Cutwater and not to mention the latest December issue of Meanjin, has got a book coming out in February. This is exciting stuff from a new talent – have a look below.
In an underground sex shop he sees it all: the buck's parties and streetwalkers, the drunks and the judges, the trannies, the junkies, the chokers. All types come through the doors and it's Spencer's poorly paid job to sell them what they want.
What Spencer wants is less straightforward. He makes figurines of Jesus with tentacles, writes revenge poetry and plans a film about the Immaculate Conception starring the blow-up dolls he lives with. Drifting between his dysfunctional family, the shop with its seedy cast of muscle-boys and amateur criminals, and the misfits who populate his apartment block, Spencer doesn't really know what he's looking for.
All that changes when Livia walks down the stairs. But can a daughter of the Cross provide salvation?
A love story set in a sex shop, Love Machine is a candid, confronting but also very funny first novel about the strange and familiar business of desire.
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20 Jan 10 at 14:32
I've put up part of an interview I conducted with Clinton on the Cutwater website for anyone who is interested in learning more about. Full interview, of course, can be read in Cutwater.
http://www.cutwaterpress.com/water-cuts-a-cutwater-blog.html
Looking forward the release of Love Machine very much.
Cheers, STM
...22 Jan 10 at 19:39
Hello Sam, I like very much tu interviews. your magazine looks moy interesante. I will try and buy this weekend
...24 Jan 10 at 12:54
Caward's two stories in Cutwater are stellar. In recent years there has been call after call for writers of today to confront issues and real-life big-world scenarios, rather than continual escape into fantasy and other phantasmagorical plot lines. Caward stories ring true because they are true. I hope Love Machine is more of the same.
The interview is also first rate. Piercing and probing questions and answers.
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