Feb 22 2025 114 mins
2. A dialogue between author Greg Scorzo and reader Carrina Murphy.
“A raw, philosophical dive into love’s messy reality—unflinching, dark, and unapologetically human.”
Unlike typical romance novels, LOVE BEFORE COVID is a dialogue-driven exploration of human flaws and ideologies, blending fiction with metaphysical inquiry. It’s not about comfort; it’s about confrontation and insight.
Described as Traumatic (sur)realism, Love Before Covid takes the reader on a journey through the mind of Joe Pastorius; jazz fan, poet, and victim of horrendous sexual and emotional abuse at the hands of his mother.
A novelised experimental and extreme collection of real-time dialogues, traversing a complex moral maze.
” Divided into five parts, and mainly consisting of dialogues between character pairs, the book is a hefty tome which reads surprisingly quickly. The dialogues, somewhat script-like, make it completely accessible to anyone. It’s a work of fiction but some aspects of the dialogues scream with bitter realism …This is a book which intrigues, revolts, repulses, stimulates, in parts a stream of consciousness, in others, a metaphysical treatise on contemporary discourse in our media, universities and homes. To read this book is to experience being a silent ghost, haunting bedrooms, living rooms and coffee shops, watching and listening to the most intimate details of conversations spoken by others …This is a challenging book, one not easy to forget. Dazzling in its originality and depth, it’s like nothing you have ever read before or will read again. Unless it is written by Greg Scorzo.”
Karen Harradine - political commentator and author.
also available as a podcast:
AUDIOBOOM CHANNEL - listen on your favourite platform - Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Deezer and more.
LOVE BEFORE COVID PODCAST CHANNEL
https://audioboom.com/channels/5042465-the-love-before-covid-podcast-channel
AUTHORS WEBSITE
https://gregscorzo.com
X - @GregScorzo
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/cultureontheoffensive
Insta @gregscorzo
Threads - gregscorzo
BUY LOVE BEFORE COVID ON
https://troubador.co.uk/bookshop/contemporary/love-before-covid
https://amzn.eu/d/9xqo7Xs
Available on kindle -
https://amzn.eu/d/4f4tPYt
Ebook versions - Apple Books,Google play, Kobo.
Author pages
Troubador Press https://troubador.co.uk/author/greg-scorzo
Good Reads
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22025371.GREG_SCORZO
AMAZON author
https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B099PYZN1F/about
“A raw, philosophical dive into love’s messy reality—unflinching, dark, and unapologetically human.”
Unlike typical romance novels, LOVE BEFORE COVID is a dialogue-driven exploration of human flaws and ideologies, blending fiction with metaphysical inquiry. It’s not about comfort; it’s about confrontation and insight.
Described as Traumatic (sur)realism, Love Before Covid takes the reader on a journey through the mind of Joe Pastorius; jazz fan, poet, and victim of horrendous sexual and emotional abuse at the hands of his mother.
A novelised experimental and extreme collection of real-time dialogues, traversing a complex moral maze.
” Divided into five parts, and mainly consisting of dialogues between character pairs, the book is a hefty tome which reads surprisingly quickly. The dialogues, somewhat script-like, make it completely accessible to anyone. It’s a work of fiction but some aspects of the dialogues scream with bitter realism …This is a book which intrigues, revolts, repulses, stimulates, in parts a stream of consciousness, in others, a metaphysical treatise on contemporary discourse in our media, universities and homes. To read this book is to experience being a silent ghost, haunting bedrooms, living rooms and coffee shops, watching and listening to the most intimate details of conversations spoken by others …This is a challenging book, one not easy to forget. Dazzling in its originality and depth, it’s like nothing you have ever read before or will read again. Unless it is written by Greg Scorzo.”
Karen Harradine - political commentator and author.
also available as a podcast:
AUDIOBOOM CHANNEL - listen on your favourite platform - Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Deezer and more.
LOVE BEFORE COVID PODCAST CHANNEL
https://audioboom.com/channels/5042465-the-love-before-covid-podcast-channel
AUTHORS WEBSITE
https://gregscorzo.com
X - @GregScorzo
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/cultureontheoffensive
Insta @gregscorzo
Threads - gregscorzo
BUY LOVE BEFORE COVID ON
https://troubador.co.uk/bookshop/contemporary/love-before-covid
https://amzn.eu/d/9xqo7Xs
Available on kindle -
https://amzn.eu/d/4f4tPYt
Ebook versions - Apple Books,Google play, Kobo.
Author pages
Troubador Press https://troubador.co.uk/author/greg-scorzo
Good Reads
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22025371.GREG_SCORZO
AMAZON author
https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B099PYZN1F/about