Lust - Tapa blanda

Praise for 253:

‘Has more emotional depth than a festival of tear-jerkers’
INDEPENDENT

‘A stylistically dazzling box of fireworks’
GLASGOW HERALD

‘Astonishingly vibrant... lyrical and totally engaging’
LA TIMES

What if you could sleep with anyone in the world, just by thinking about it?

The ultimate fantasy?
Or a nightmare of self-discovery?

From the renowned author of 253 comes a dark, erotic fable for the modern age.

On the way home from the lab one night, Michael Blasco, a young scientist, spies an acquaintance he fancies. Idly, he imagines Tony naked and an extraordinary thing happens – Tony strips there and then on the platform and offers himself in front of all onlookers. Horrified, Michael flees. But back at his flat, Tony magically reappears. Then disappears, when Michael wishes him away.

Michael knows an experiment at work when he sees one. He sets out to test the parameters of his new-found gift, rapidly calling up Billie Holiday, Johnny Weismuller, Lawrence of Arabia, Alexander the Great, Picasso, and even his younger self.

Mad with lust and losing all scientific objectivity, he runs the gamut to his fantasies until, utterly sated but morally bankrupt, he’s forced to confront the spent figure of himself. And maybe learn something – about life, about love, about the desire in all our souls that defines everything we do.