Gone Tomorrow Audiobook

Footloose and broke the unnamed narrator of Gone Tomorrow hops on a plane without asking questions when his director friend offers him a role in a film set in Colombia But from the moment he arrives at the airport in Bogot only to witness a policeman beat a beggar half to death it becomes clear that this will not be the story of gritty bohemians triumphing against the odds The director Paul Grosvenor seems more interested in manipulating his cast than in shooting film The cult star Irma Irma is a vamp too bored and boring to draw blood And the beautiful nymphlike Michael Simard doesnt seem to be putting out Meanwhile the films shady financier is sleeping with his mother while a serial killer skulks about the area killing tourists Everything comes to a head when the carnaval celebration begins But once the fiesta is over all thats left are ghostly memories and the narrators insistence on telling the tale Unlike the majority of pointedly AIDSera novels writes Dennis Cooper Gone Tomorrow is neither an amoral nostalgia fest nor a thinly veiled wakeup call hyping the religion of sobriety Its a philosophical work devised by a writer whos both too intelligent to buy into the notion that a successful future requires the compromise of collective decision and too moral to accept bitterness as the consequence of an adventurous life