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Singularly obsessed with his all-consuming passion for Anna, the object of his adolescent desire, the photographer Christophe Langelier is beside himself. Ten years ago, he failed the test of eating a bicycle for her as proof of his love and devotion. Since then, he has created a photographic catalogue of his only model, complete with a glossary, an "Anna-lexique," in which the darkness and the light of her idealized being have shaded his language, even as her ubiquitous image has crowded out his own identity. Desperate to escape his unrequited love for Anna, Christophe flees to the Island of Women off the coast of Mexico. There, he sacrifices his former self and begins his transformation from a man possessed to a man confused. The Bicycle Eater is a comic, surrealist novel of metamorphosis unleashed by hopeless desire, a riotous, colorful burlesque where nothing and no one remain what they seem.
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"The most memorable novel I've read lately, I found it an eerily seductive tale of desire and transformation. Tremblay's magical language leads us through consumptive anguish, into surreal burlesque, onward to a fierce reality."
Christopher Willard, novelist and art critic
"Larry Tremblay's broad experience as a playwright is evident in The Bicycle Eater, a novel which breathes theatrically. Things and people are never quite what they seem in this gender-bending ride through the topsy-turvy tunnels of 27-year old photographer Christophe Langelier's obsession with Anna; this is also a good book for anyone who appreciates the surreal. There is something poetic about t
Montreal Review of Books
"Extravagance drives this book, and by sheer tenacity finally vaults it beyond the range of critical harping, Tremblay's story unfolds in paroxysms of the improbable, straddling dreamland and reality."
Globe and Mail