Finally and predictably, Nick faces a deadly confrontation with his relentlessly pursuing father and mother. At one point, as part of 'a sadistic new sport called Carrying the Can,' Nick crosses an icy river by walking over the heads of a living bridge of standing creosotes. Clark keeps the sex and violence relatively restrained.

After finding his brother dismembered by their parents, narrator Nick Aten (rhymes with Satan) observes, 'adults seem to be actually afraid of their children.whom they feel compelled to destroy before we destroy them.' Nick's theory is later confirmed at story-stopping length by another character, who explains the killings in Jungian evolutionary terms. Those kids lucky enough to escape their insane, zombie-like elders, labeled 'creosotes' or 'kaybees' for 'crazy bastards,' gather in communes in an obvious nod to Golding's The Lord of the Flies. A wild premise on a 'Saturday night in April, every adult human being on this planet' goes mad and begins murdering everyone under 19 ensures almost constant action. (Sept.)' -PW First Edition Signed edition Deluxe edition.Ublished in January as a mass market paperback, this crude generation-gap shocker from British author Clark (Darkness Demands) will thrill the adolescent audience for which it's unashamedly intended.

Rebellious teenagers will enjoy the vicarious revenge on their parents, but the more sophisticated would do better to read Jung.

'.this crude generation-gap shocker from British author Clark (Darkness Demands) will thrill the adolescent audience for which it's unashamedly intended. A fine first hardcover edition, SIGNED and limited to 1000 copies in a fine dust jacket.

Blood Crazy by Simon Clark