White Mythology

Author: W.D. Clarke

Narrator: L.J. Ganser

Unabridged: 10 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: corona\samizdat

Published: 07/18/2025

Categories: Fiction, World Literature

Synopsis

Dr. Ed's head is spinning: a long-lost 'son' has just been sent over to his office by the temp agency, his shopping-addicted wife seems to have disappeared, and the clinical trial that he is running for a revolutionary new anti-depressant might well be going off the rails. But Dr. Ed is in control of everything, including himself.Thus begins "Skinner Boxed", the first of two thematically linked novellas that comprise White Mythology. In the second piece, "Love's Alchemy", five narrators deliver stories of betrayal that are nested like Russian dolls, stories that span an attempted seduction in Tokyo in 1987 back to a brotherly schism that erupted during a bottle rocket game of "war" in 1970s Massachusetts. From boys who poison their teacher's plants to men who compulsively urinate into rivers, these strange (and strangely connected) monologues drop the reader into the pitch-black dunk tank of the soul.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on October 13, 2020

White Mythology by W.D. Clark consists of two finely crafted novellas that focus on primarily privileged white folks and some of the presumptions (mythologies) that are inherent and common in their identities. Clark isn't addressing racism or the various types of political mythologies that undergird......more

Goodreads review by Ian on June 20, 2017

PROLEGOMENA TO A MODEST CRITIQUE OF "WHITE MYTHOLOGY" All That Is Solid Melts into Air "The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of......more

Goodreads review by Rick on August 22, 2020

I was quite happy to finish novel or novella one today, and simply intended to tour novel or novella two, but it was so rich and compelling I read it through to the end. If there is one thing I value as writer and reader it is constant surprise, and along with Clarke mastery of language and the inte......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on June 18, 2022

I used to go to a ton of shows/concerts back in the day. As many as we could. I’ve always been one to buy some sort of paraphernalia at the show. Be it a shirt or sticker or really, anything the band(s) were selling. I was showing off my love for the artists as well as giving them a little more $$$.......more

Goodreads review by Ebooks on July 14, 2016

I was trying to think how to put this book into a particular genre and style, and I struggled as it is different to anything that I have read before. I'd say the first story, Skinner Boxed is a thoughtful and stimulating account of Dr Ed, a psychiatrist, and a look into his rather flawed life. He sp......more