Paul R. Wilson

The Birthday of Eternity takes a lively, gonzo-like romp into the Victorian school story, a world replete with sex, decadence, and war. Oliver Wilde, an ailing scholar, recalls his lost youth as a much-bullied student attending Malmedy--a Victorian boarding school on an English moor. Like his near-namesake, Oscar Wilde, Oliver hides his inner demons. A spiritless summer explodes when two likeminded adolescents invade his world: the sexually alluring Sabine Loy, endowed with an ability to see the dead, and the pleasure seeker, Lucien Gale, a decadent able to discern the soul's darkest secrets. The trinity embark on an odyssey, venturing into drugs and sex while pursuing every precious moment of life. Oscar's captivation turns to horror when a pair of mysterious deaths disrupts Malmedy. What does Oliver have to do with the tragedies? What dreadful deeds does he conceal? And what strange fate lies ahead for the trio as a dying century ends? The Birthday of Eternity unveils a bittersweet school story unlike any other, an audacious merry-go-round ride rife with depravity and those twin essentials of youth--angst and anarchy.

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