Drinnan’s most ambitious novel to date and winner of a Lambda award
‘There is a prophetic aura that percolates through Izzy and Eve…I read it in awe and in envy. It is affecting, surprising, and just buggeringly inspired.’—Justin Chin, author of Gutted
‘Alternately funny and fascinating, and ultimately quite moving, this is quite simply Drinnan's best book to date.’—D. Travers Scott, author of One of These Things Is Not Like the Other and Execution Texas
It seems forever that Israel (Izzy) and Evangeline (Eve)—a gay man and his woman friend—have lived together while the city around them crumbles. He’s an erotic cartoonist; she makes exotic jewellery and works as a receptionist in one of the whorehouses in their raunchy neck of the woods. She collects clippings about unsolved murders of women from lurid newspapers and is a rational, tippling, cynic who also has flashes of psychic ability. He’s an ageing party boy who’s been getting more and more into metaphysical reading and exploring heightened states of mind through S&M sex clubs and a peyote-like drug called silt that’s permeated the gay community. Silt causes a ‘shift,’ which takes the user to a different reality.
When gay men of a certain age (‘Prime Cuts’) start disappearing without a trace, and then Izzy goes missing, Eve must summon her greatest powers—intuition and sex—for a journey through bars, sex clubs, a dungeon, mysterious dream messages, and several jolting silt trips in an effort to grasp what’s happened. Along the way, a complex portrait emerges of the relationship between two erotic outlaws.
Part thriller, part ghost story, part satire, Izzy and Eve is at once edgy, seedy, wild, sensuous, mysterious, ominous and hopeful.
First published in September 2006 by Green Candy Press, San Francisco, California. Izzy and Eve will be distributed in Australia by Bookwise International Pty Ltd.