Kelly and Victor Author:Niall Griffiths A dark and disturbing new novel about sadomasochism -- from the acclaimed author of Grits and Sheepshagger. — A bar in Liverpool, January 2, 2000. Victor, coming down from the recent global party, meets a girl. Some time later that night he is in her bed. This, he thinks, is the best sex he’s ever had. Kelly, coming down after th... more »e recent global party, meets a boy. Some time later that night he is in her bed. This, she thinks, is the best sex she’s ever had.
So the story of Kelly & Victor progresses, through two mirror-image narratives: the spiraling intensity of a sexual obsession traced to an inevitable, devastating conclusion. Set against a backdrop of urban despair, spiritual absence and a world swamped with pornography, it is, above all, a love story -- or what the 21st-century will allow of one.« less