The Lazy Boys
A Novel
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Publisher Description
Richey Sauer, eighteen, drifts into university. Tortured by a drunken incident he can’t remember, he descends into a dizzying spiral of drug abuse, sex, bullying, and the violent slipstream of organized sport.
THE LAZY BOYS is the cult classic novel of Dunedin, New Zealand, a famed university town, its mythology hiding a world of sordid parties, private school cliques and institutionalized violence. A satirical vision of a generation unmoored from morality and prospects—young men ripping away not only at the bonds of family and society, but at themselves and everything that attracts them.
By the author of the award-winning THE METHOD ACTORS.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Richard "Souse" Sauer, the 18-year-old antihero narrator of New Zealand writer Shuker's second novel (after Method Actors) is on a violent behavior jag that would make American Psycho's Patrick Bateman proud. Souse is a sensitive, self-destructive kid made uncomfortable by his first contact with independence as a marketing student at the University of Otago. Unofficially, he has switched to the more congenial discipline of beer guzzling, with a minor in bong hits; one beer-drenched night he does some awful, sexually abusive thing that he can't quite remember to "this blond chick" at a party. Early on, Souse is revealed to be both a sadist (he tortures Snoopy, the family dog, and reads serial killer stories for inspiration) and a sensitive soul (he has a Sylvia Plath poem tacked up in his dorm room). After he leaves college and moves in with some similarly disaffected friends, Souse's days are foggy with parties, bars, self-pity and introspection the latter two being pretty much identical. Unfortunately, the numbing regularity of Souse's days and nights (party, stupor, self-loathing) diminish the reader's interest long before Souse's final plunge into mayhem.
