Q&A with Oliver Pearl
When did you realize that you wanted to become a writer? What was the very first thing you ever wrote?
When I read Jules Verne when I was 8. I was terrified not by his characters' adventures but my imagining them that turned my head into London's IMAX Dome.
The first thing I wrote were poems of questionable value.
Who is your literary hero?
Henry Miller in The Tropic of Cancer.
How much of your characters are based on your traits or someone you know personally?
Everything. Some people act, others observe. I observe. And take notes.
Describe your main character in six words.
Curious, shy, extravagant, sincere, goofy, kind.
Describe the world you’ve created in six words.
Gentle, rough, bizarre, grotesque, metallic, burgundy
What scene was your favorite to write?
The threesome with Shurkin and Nymph in the first chapter. And, of course the epilogue.
What scene was the hardest for you to write?
Ecstasy trip in the night club in Paris. The hardest thing was acknowledging that it may be lost on some people who never took the drug and cutting the scene by half.
What are you working on now?
A book about the mystical age upon reaching which people aging process is reversed.
What's your favorite thing to do when you're not writing?
To drink scotch and smoke. Absolutely nothing good comes out on that day and because of that I seldom do it. But it is so much fun! I'm missing it now.
ABOUT The Last Gentle Dentist by Oliver Pearl
Based on actual events, spanning continents from San Francisco to Paris, from Amsterdam to Odessa, from New York to Siberia, The Last Gentle Dentist is a novel about a modern age Casanova, a romantic-vigilante, who is fond of pain medications and elective plastic surgery, whose life is a tumultuous river running with the speed of a putrid pond, which makes an unexpected turn when he goes on the run from the law due to charges of medical fraud. He wanders the streets of Europe looking for ways to stay. This search throws him into bony arms and narrow beds of people he meets, fugitives in their own right, only to bring to a new light his own immaturity and unscrupulousness he only yesterday called boyishness and charm. He revisits his recent past, ornate with Vicodin fountains and Ecstasy-laced threesome fender-benders, while adding more crumpled and soon blood-stained pages to his love affair with Life.
Giveaway Info
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Oliver Pearl’s Bio:
Age: Early Forties
Place Of Birth: At Sea
Physical Description: Reclusive, yet to be seen
Residence: South of France
Links
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