Death of a Super Hero
Author(s): Anthony McCarten
Donald Delpe is dying. But this 14-year-old virgin has an urgent desire . . . to have sex, at least once, before he goes. Who will help him?
Escaping into his own comic-book realm of immortal superheroes, ruthless villains and sex-crazed vamps, he endlessly dashes his parents' hopes by refusing to fight the battles facing him in the real world. Enter renowned psychologist, Dr Adrian King, the man charged with fixing DonaldÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs head so the chemo has a better chance of fixing his disease. But will the doctor break his own rules, betray the parents' trust, and risk everything to help Donald achieve his greatest wishO Or will Donald be the one to save the doctorb
Inspired by actual events, Death of a Superhero is a brilliantly original fusion of novel, comic-book and film-script, a celebration of the fleetingness of life, the eternal difficulty of love - at any age - and a hilarious riff on our 21st century infatuation with movies and the superhero solution.
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Anthony McCarten's debut novel, Spinners (1998) has been translated into four languages. His collection of short stories, A Modest Apocalypse, was shortlisted in the Heinemann-Reed Fiction Award in 1991. He has published three novels to date and also written twelve stage plays, including co-writing the world-wide success Ladies Night, which won the prestigious Moliere prize, the Meilleure Piece Comique in 2001. McCarten has also adapted another of his plays, Via Satellite, into a feature film which he directed, and which had its world premiere at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
General Fields
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- : Random House New Zealand Ltd
- : Vintage New Zealand
- : 0.201
- : 08 April 2005
- : 198mm X 128mm
- : New Zealand
- : books
Special Fields
- : Anthony McCarten
- : Paperback
- : 208