“Voiced from the first and third-person perspective in a humorous and metaphoric tone, Becoming Buddha by Corey Croft is a mind-blowing memoir. The writing style is impeccable.”
My life was, is and will probably always be painfully average. I am the glistening standard of what it means to be normal. My grades, my looks, my jobs, my partners, everything, dead-center in the median of ordinary. Most of us are like that, at least that’s what Alex says.
Oh, Alex? He’s my best friend.
He’s attractive and cool and mysterious and says things that I’ve thought better than I could ever say them. See, I’ve always known my mediocrity and was trying to be ok with it. But Alex, he seems to think I’m capable of more. He’s my best friend and he’s anything but average. He’s also kind of a dick.
“Corey Croft’s witty, perspicacious work of fiction Coward engages and captivates readers from beginning to end. 5 Stars.” -San Francisco Book Review
Sam is edging towards middle-age in a go-nowhere relationship with a dead-end job. His lust for life has all but dried up. Nothing he does seems to make him or his situation better. Whether its laziness or complacency, he’s desperate for a change that appears more impossible every day.
Sam isn’t simply a coward. He’s the perfect coward. Defeated. Desperate. A shrieking violet in a culture where standing out is key. A wallflower praying to be plucked.
An uproarious and nail-biting social satire that seamlessly blends supernatural and real-world elements. COWARD is for fans of dark comedy and cringe humour at its finest, Kurt Vonnegut, and staring out of the window at car accidents on the highway.
“Brutal realism marks the turns of this coming-of-age novel, set during the 1990s drug boom. The city of Fury is both a haven and a hell for the teens who call it home. In Corey Croft’s gritty novel The Furies, a crew of friends are divided on whether or not to escape Fury, or to embrace its physical, social, and psychological boundaries.” – Foreword Books
SCUMBAG REHAB is the first chapter in the February Sessions series. The novel provides a stylized and absorbing experience which combines the gratuitousness of grindhouse-era film with the mood and tone of pulp and noir fiction. The use of foul language, vulgarity and sex is abundant. Visual and daunting, this gut-punch symphony will appeal to fans of Frank Miller, Bukowski, Palahniuk and other darkly humoured, subversive works of art.
A graphic, bizarro adventure that fuses the cinematic storytelling of Scorsese and Tarantino to create a gritty, visceral spectacle that lunges from the page and reads like an erotic thriller movie. The cocktail of sex, murder and revenge in this hard-hitting, hard-boiled splatterfest is not for the weak of heart or the easily offended.
