According to the press release this book contains 1,014 pages, 3,623 swear words, 3,907 sex acts and 4,373 acts of violence. The 'sexually explicit' sticker on the cover doesn't come remotely close to suggesting how debauched it is. But, God, it's a good read (as long as you have a spare month or so - it's very long).
Protagonist Danny is a 19-year-old of such staggering beauty that no one can resist him, male or female - not even his mother. He swaggers through the book from one sex act to another searching for answers to childhood mysteries, hidden in maze of family lies. The reader is totally sucked into his world, and before you reach the shocking end you'll be aroused, disgusted, horrified and everything else in between.
Any writer who can inspire such a gamut of emotions is skilled: think Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho with more heart and you'll have an idea of what you're dealing with. Not one for the the faint - hearted, but if you get off on scenes of man - on - man action you'll probably want a copy next to your bed.
The Times Literary Supplement
How you respond to DANNY - a family saga: only the raunchy hardcore version - will depend on what you bring to it. The licentious will overdose on its salacious sex. The socially concerned will find a searing portrait of familial dysfuntion. The depraved will wallow in its excess. This obsessive tale of torn hearts bleeding vengance through every pore is crying out for an intelligent audience.
