David is as landlocked in his current job as a telemarketer as is Gainesville, Florida. He is a college dropout and spends his spare time sifting through the porn of a fledging 1999 Internet. It is summer, Florida is hot and David is listless, making him susceptible to a new kind of life. Fishgut is a dilapidated house where a group of unlikely roommates live, social dropouts, anarchists and generally lost souls, creating a religious cult of sorts, waiting for a new Messiah, in the form of a hobo, who will save this motley group from the world, each other and themselves.
A dark and visceral novel, The Gospel of Anarchy explores the overdevelopment of a university town, the isolationism the world of computers, and the exploding internet, can encourage, corporate and government corruption and oppression and the zealousness of anarchists as they search for something, anything to believe in, to hold on to. As distasteful as David found his sterile cubicle, he finds he can thrive, or at least think, amidst his new friends dirt and garbage, until he is able to immerge refresh and renewed. This first novel will not grab everyone, but you will find yourself considering it from time to time and thinking about some of the contradictions and dichotomies Justin Taylor explores.
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