The goddess lens / Pascal O'Loughlin.

"'If the Celts have nine gods of eloquence, then Pascal O'Loughlin's voice in The Goddess Lens exhibits them all. Pop the goddess lens into your eye for a fabulous postmodern trip that makes itself as it's unmade. There you will be woven into the creative despair, profound insight and helpless joy of a mind on fire. The Goddess Lens shares its protagonist between Pascal, a fat, Irish, gay novelist and Christine, a lesbian private investigator, both seeking succour from feminine energies--creative, sexual, maternal-pick one, or them all. The novelist, fidgety with doubt and a "horror of toil," consults his ex, Nigel, for editing advice on Christine's tale, which shifts dizzyingly from her childhood in an orphanage to a lesbian squat, via alien craft harbouring "a green slime of countless genders." Then comes Lockdown to thicken the dystopia. O'Loughlin's imagination is agile, nay aerobic, ensorcelling the reader into a maniacal universe-guarded by a woman named Appetite-which worships spider plants and waits to be restarted by a female deity. But will Pascal be compensated for homophobic abuse by the Catholic Church? “I don't actually have a real life," he says. "I live in this story. The story wants to infect the world." - Cherry Smyth, author of Famished and My Animal, My Age."--Provided by publisher.