Overview

When Paul enters university in early 1970s Pittsburgh, it’s with the hope of moving past the recent death of his father. Sensitive, insecure, and like a stranger to his family, Paul feels isolated and alone. When he meets the worldly Julian in his freshman ethics class, Paul is immediately drawn to his classmate’s effortless charm. Paul will stop at nothing to prove himself worthy of their friendship. But Julian is as volatile and cruel as he is charismatic, and Paul begins to suspect that he can never live up to what Julian expects of him. As their friendship spirals into all-consuming intimacy, they each learn the lengths to which the other will go in order to stay together, their obsession ultimately hurtling them toward an act of irrevocable violence. From then on, everything changes…

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‘A startling debut by a heady talent whose vision of what youthful arrogance and delusion can lead to feels completely on the mark.’ Michael Upchurch, Seattle Times ‘It's only a matter of time before things start to explode in this enthralling, unpredictable thriller.’ Patrick Rapa, Philadelphia Inquirer ‘As unsettling as it is enthralling... It shattered me.’  Robin Wasserman, author of Girls on Fire and Mother Daughter Widow Wife ‘Nemerever's darkly shrewd debut exists in that hazy liminal space between desire and obsession, where the vagaries of a relationship come shaded with the constant threat of cruelty.’ Michelle Hart, Oprah Daily 'Haunting and beautiful, powerful, and twisted... it will keep you up at night, turning page after page.’ Jen St. Jude, Chicago Review of Books

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Micah Nemerever was trained as an art historian. He wrote his master’s thesis on queer identity and gender anxiety in the art of the Weimar Republic. He is an avid home chef and amateur historian of queer cinema. After studying in rural Connecticut and Austin, Texas, he now resides in the Pacific Northwest. These Violent Delights is his first novel.

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