A Diet of Worms

• A Diet of Worms
• Price: $18.00
• Erik Rasmussen
• Fiction - PB
• Pages - 246
• ISBN 978-1-7320091-0-3
• LCCN 2018934093
• June 15 2018

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A tale of teenage drama, with sex, fire, and hallucination.

A few years ago, Larry Morvan lost his best friend, his father, his girlfriend and his virginity during a three-day field trip. Now, on the eve of his 17^th birthday, he’s got a confession to make.

Larry is an underachiever searching for a hero among his Long Island hometown ruins. When a knack for drawing earns him a nomination to an exclusive field trip, Larry’s set upon a crash course with the real and the imagined, with the opposite of his icons, with the Devil himself—who just might be his daddy.

From plastic soldiers in a dollhouse to teenagers in a flaming cabin, Rasmussen weaves a tale of merciless disillusionment measured in betrayal, death, hallucination, and his own ejaculate’s distance. Often hysterical, sometimes misanthropic, and altogether controversial, A Diet of Worms tells the story of a young cynic’s misadventures on the hunt for something to believe in.

If Brett Easton Ellis wrote Catcher in the Rye, it might sound like this.

PRAISE

“Erik Rasmussen’s A Diet of Worms shows an American stylist with an inimical voice and a keen ear for dialogue. Reading the novel is like sliding down a carving knife still gleaming with fat. It’s that kind of lean feast.”
—Jeff Jackson, journalist, screenwriter, and Editor At Large for Rock and Ice

“Larry’s ‘pin’ is his compass through the horrors of an extra-ordinary adolescence. It finds its mark, but leaves a wake of fire and death. Compelling reading for anyone lucky enough to have reached adulthood.”
—Paul d’Orleans Editor; Cycle World: Author; Cafe Racers, The Chopper: The Real Story

“It matters how you play with things, A Diet of Worms’ protagonist announces early on, and debut author Erik Rasmussen plays with the generic conventions of the coming-of-age novel in ways that are both provocative and poignant. If you like your slice of Americana bittersweet and blistering, grab the can.”
—Chris Campanioni, author of Death of Art and The Internet is For Real