Fiction

Bleeding Light

by Rob Benvie

Description

In this deliriously patterned novel, Benvie’s disorienting brew of madmen, poets, and visionaries shifts from Germany to Kenya, India to Mexico City, suburbia to a Joshua Tree hideaway. The book unfolds in four interwoven stories: ill-fated love stories, stories about addiction to drugs and power, with a mix of violence and tenderness tempered by humour.

Connecting these disparate strands is a mysterious “bleeding light,” a gateway to other realms. What waits on the other side—and what becomes of those who pass into its radiance—is a mystery.


Bleeding Light is a grimly funny and often trippy take on transcendence that reveals the symbolic fabric connecting us all.

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Reviews

“A darkly gleaming marvel. Searing, creepy and mystical—as if Don DeLillo had set out to steal Paulo Coelho’s flock.”


—Sean Michaels, Scotiabank Giller Prize winner and author of The Wagers


“This swirling and masterful novel is sharp, deliriously patterned, painfully dark and darkly funny: lined with prose that demands to be read and reread...”


— Liz Harmer, author of The Amateurs and Strange Loops

Author Biography

Rob Benvie’s writing has appeared in McSweeney’s , Dazed , Vice , Joyland , CNQ, and been produced widely for film, music, and television.


Born and raised in Nova Scotia, he currently lives in Toronto, Canada. Bleeding Light is his third novel.

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher Invisible Publishing
  • ISBN/Identifier 9781988784649
  • Publication Country or regionCanada
  • FormatPaperback
  • Pages352
  • ReadershipGeneral
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Copyright Year2021

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