Long Talking Bad Conditions Blues

Long Talking Bad Conditions Blues traces the movements of a group of exiles caught in the "accelerated shatter" of a contemporary society. Under the "new conditions" the revolution has failed and the conglomerates have taken over, while individuals skirt every nameless abyss - of language, of love, of sexuality, of loss - inside themselves. Using an original from resembling the rhythmic variations and repetitions of a long song, and with the brilliant sense of play typical of his previous fiction, Suckenick's "talking blues" follows these characters as they try to juggle with their own psyches and the several systems of language, economics, politics, and technology that conspire to control and destroy their personal lives.