Thirty-two years after Motorman, David Ohle returned to its ruined, bureaucratic world with this seriously weird sequel.

Moldenke wakes after another collective “Forgetting” with little more than his name and fragments of his previous life, moving through a society of neutrodynes, reanimated corpses, absurd laws, improvised religions and political factions obsessed with maintaining “balance.” 

Smoking hair produces “cricket consciousness”; government ideology insists there must be as much sorrow as joy, crime as punishment, pain as pleasure; history survives as mangled cultural debris. Beneath the grotesquerie, though, Ohle is interested in memory, bodily autonomy, political myth, and contemporary reviews positioned it somewhere between Beckett, Burroughs and speculative satire, without it behaving quite like any of them. 

Soft Skull Press, New York, 2004. First edition. ShortLit Series paperback. Light shelf wear and handling to covers, with minor rubbing and edge wear. Pages lightly toned but clean and unmarked; binding firm. Very good condition.