Book Description

DescriptionWritten under the pen name Jeremy Clarke and originally published in 1988 to critical acclaim and strong sales, ""Necrotrivia vs. Skull"" is a scathing but playful satire of Western culture and materialism, its addictions and collective mental instability. ""Necrotrivia"" provides an interesting, fictional contrast to Jeremy's memoir, ""Victim of Dreams,"" also available from Chipmunka. Indeed, ""Necrotrivia's main character, an alien who develops a junk food addiction and ends up a copywriter whoring a narcotic breakfast cereal, is in a way a prophetic cipher of the author, whose experiences and bipolar battles he mimics. Now accorded cult status, this new edition of the book features original graphics by Birmingham animator Aston Walker. About the AuthorJeremy Gluck is an expatriate Canadian who, with a parallel, successful life in the arts as a novelist, poet, musician lyricist, journalist and more, is now working in the voluntary mental health sector. Diagnosed some years ago with bipolar disorder, he has since written two books around mental health, the first a memoir, "Victim of Dreams," and the second "A Definitive Guide to Mental Health Recovery," a personal consideration of routes to recovery that includes contributions from a variety of expert thinkers on the subject. The reappearance after twenty years of his first book, the satirical novel "Necrotrivia vs. Skull," brings this highly creative artist's published work full circle.