- Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: Signet (MM); Reprint edition (April 21 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0451186583
- ISBN-13: 978-0451186584
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 10.7 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 45 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,003,917 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
With this wryly horrific riff on self-help programs, Nasaw (Shakedown Street, 1993) joins the burgeoning ranks of writers who pick up echoes of vampirism in the rhythms of everyday relationships. His bloodsuckers are respectable citizens of El Cerrito, Calif., who treat their thirst as an addiction they can kick through weekly meetings of Vampires Anonymous (V.A.), which recovering vampire Nick Santos conducts like any other 12-step program. Complications arise when Jamey Whistler, a member of V.A. who sees its approach as cultlike, secretly begins to undermine the organization. V.A. is by no means a new concept (Jeffrey McMahan made it the focus of his 1991 satire, Vampires Anonymous), but Nasaw uses it to address the bigger issue of the consequences of a permissive society. With great dexterity, he choreographs scenes of Nick and Jamey's vamp. vs. vamp tango around chapters from Nick's gestating book, The World on Blood, an account of gay vampire life in San Francisco's Castro district in the 1970s. V.A. is portrayed as Nick's sobering wake-up call from his promiscuous lifestyle, and America's rush toward self-help movements as the inevitable response to decades of hedonistic self-indulgence. Vivid characters who veer between the comic and the tragic keep the preachiness at bay, gleefully underscoring the irony of a society seemingly addicted to anti-addiction therapies. Literary Guild selection.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Booklist
Nasaw showcases the world's and the Bay Area's weirdest 12-step, self-help group: vampires. In other respects, they are just normal boomers trying to kick an addiction. The group contains two poles of power: leader Nick Santos and dissenter James Whistler. Their conflict drives the action as Whistler subverts the group by getting the members, one by one, to drink blood again. Reason? It makes for ecstatic sex, spun out here in all forms save those involving animals. Even babies enter the breathy fray, not as principals to be sure (Nasaw wisely keeping the American Family Association off his back) but as sources of blood of even higher libidinous content than adults'. Consequently, baby-snatching becomes a device to bring the two main characters together in a wild encounter at Whistler's ritzy Lake Tahoe chalet. Add necromancing by the witch Selene--the vampires' second favorite slurpy stop--and Nasaw has installed elements that his capable character development, mainly Nick's backsliding into imbibing, turn into a hedonistic fantasy. Entertaining for the Anne Rice crowd. Gilbert Taylor
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Not what I was expecting,
By A Customer
This review is from: World On Blodd (Hardcover)
I purchased this book because it was said to be rather good Splatterpunk novel. Although it really did lack the heavy gore or sex that classifies a book as such, the story was not a total disappointment. The story is a new twist to vampires, really giving them a more scientific reasoning for being. I did find it a bit predictable at times. All in all, I did enjoy reading it and will look for other novels writen by Jonathan Nasaw.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful,
By A Customer
This review is from: World On Blood (Paperback)
I never knew it was possible to fiend for a drug that doesn't exsist.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Awesome,
By C_MEMNOCH@hotmail.com (Ireland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: World On Blood (Paperback)
This really sums up this book, if you like Vampires - check this out.They really do exist! I gave a copy of this book to virtually everyone I know. Spread the word.
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