Raw Canvas - Hardcover

by Ian Bloom (Author)

Ian Bloom wrote Raw Canvas from age 23 to 25 between Los Angeles and New York - years of velocity, private ruin, and calibrated distance. These short stories move in a slim, core style: isolation, self-destruction, disillusionment, and the tension of liberty under fluorescent consequence. Bloom's prose stays sharp and restrained - mask in shadow, appetite in control - until the scene breaks open.

Raw Canvas is a set of controlled detonations: men in motion, rooms without mercy, heat without romance. From coastal drift and gambling rites to city corridors and terminal lines, Bloom isolates the moment where pleasure turns procedural - and the soul realizes it's been operating on a timer.

Selected stories include:

"A Baja Summer"

"A Familiar Accord"

"Knock Yourself Out"

"Natural Purpose"

"In A Line To Get Out"