Notre Dame du Vide

"It’s a beautiful day. It’s always a beautiful day in Los Angeles. You stop noticing after a while; the monotony of perfection. I am intensely aware of my own discomfort... the ache in my bones... we sit on the grass next to a sleeping winehead. The filthy pigeons circle us like ragged junkies mooching for change. An empty crack vial, trodden underfoot and shattered, glints like stardust."

NOTRE DAME DU VIDE [first published in 2009 by French publisher 13e Note Editions] is presented in English for the first time in this e-book edition. This short story collection - which introduced Tony O'Neill to French readers - won acclaim from the likes of Le Monde who said, "[with NOTRE DAME DU VIDE] O'Neill stakes his claim as a possible 21st century successor to the drunken blues of Bukowski or the space-age junkie fantasy of William Burroughs," and Bâtard Sournois who compared the book to, "Lou Reed at his most dissolute, Trocchi at his most angry and poetic."