We're incredibly happy to be able to introduce a new project that will
be shipping next month...
Created in collaboration with June-Alison Gibbons, Strange Attractor Press
together with David Tibet and Ania Goszczyńska, are proud to announce that
we will be publishing the first widely-available editon of The
Pepsi-Cola Addict, a legendary and long sought-after work of
outsider literature.
First 200 orders will come with a mini-card signed by June-Alison
Gibbons.
(Shipping Mid-March)
He walked into the turbulent super market. There were people everywhere.
His eyes swept over the shelves and stabilised on a large stack of Pepsi-Colas.
He could almost experience the cool fizzy liquid descending his parched
throat…
“I’ll have them in bulk please.”
So begins this legendary lost novel, in which fourteen-year-old Preston
Wildey-King must choose between his all-consuming passion for Pepsi-Cola and his
love for schoolmate Peggy.
Written in 1981 by June-Alison Gibbons when she was only sixteen, The
Pepsi-Cola Addict is considered one of the great works of
twentieth-century outsider literature. More than just a literary curiosity, this
tale of a teenager whose passion for a world-famous cola drink threatens to ruin
his life is the uniquely vivid expression of a young woman trying to make sense
of the confusing, often brutal, world in which she found herself.
Originally published by a vanity press who took £500 from its young
author and gave her only a single book in return, it’s thought that fewer
than ten original copies still exist.
Shortly after its publication, June-Alison and her sister Jennifer would
become infamous as “The Silent Twins” and find themselves cruelly
incarcerated for over a decade in Broadmoor psychiatric hospital.
This new edition makes June Alison's remarkable vision widely-available
for the first time.
The Pepsi-Cola Addict
By June-Alison Gibbons
Paperback with flaps
£17.99
ISBN: 9781913689711
144 pp. | 124 x 191 mm
First 200 orders will come with a mini-card signed by June-Alison
Gibbons.
