Past Event

Launch of LIFE KILLS by Miles Vertigan

6th Oct 2011

Presenter: Sleepers Publishing
Website: http://www.sleeperspublishing.com/
Event Duration: 120 minutes

"it was just one of those girly little fights we have my precious little sparkles my little fudgy wudgy bunnikins so drop the gun my little sparkles dear cos i know it isn’t loaded and i hate to break it to ya honey child but this one is.”

Life Kills follows the dark journey and twisted mind ravines of a mysterious unnamed terrorist as he goes about his business. On his flight, stewards Bubbles and Sparkles, pilots Brad and Chad, and a bunch of burnt out z-list hackster celebrities face their own particular brands of demons. Our terrorist antihero faces terrible choices along the way, torn between burning passion and mindless passivity; and throughout, the Inflight Infotainment system lurks, ever present but becoming a more powerful and sinister force as the story unfolds.

Miles Vertigan lives and writes in a parallel universe near you. Come and align with him at Bella Union for the launch of Life Kills - another great Sleepers publication.

"Life Kills is social satire turned up to eleven, the bastard offspring of Ben Elton and TISM. Vertigan takes his hypervitriolic milk-thru-the-nose wit in hand and runs full tilt at a darkly surreal yet convincing existential caricature of the follies of self-absorbed contemporary consumer society, skewering them neatly on his perfectly balanced page-long compound adjectival sentences to devastating, jaw-dropping, giggle-inducing, read-it-aloud-to-whoever-is-in-earshot effect.” Adam Ford

“Such is Life Kills: a brain-distorting novel as wild, raucous and vital as any Australian writing since Ned Kelly’s ‘Jerilderie Letter'."
Emmett Stinson

"Disturbingly like being inside Charlie Sheen, at 30,000 feet."
Fiona Scott-Norman