Purgatory

At summertime in Purgatory, the stench of bodies is thick. Beat cops and junkies, technocrats and experimental treatments. When there is no cure for a person, you make a new person and cure them. "In Ian Townsend's Purgatory the matter-of-factness of his writing is so ingenious and handy and he is such a great poker-faced magician with narrative that the effect is both riveting and sublime." -Dennis Cooper