Drugs, violence, real violence, life, life - we romanticise it - it is like - a drug - like - the trauma, the trauma of actually seeing this world is such that we create fantasies, we reward those who create fantasies because God forbid we look at - reality - at ourselves - there are people in this country, other people who are fascinating and troubled - and yet - where are they?"
Christopher Shinn's Other People is set in New York among a twenty-something generation whose lives and hopes are blighted by disillusionment born of affluence and impotence in the face of the unknown