Slackwire is about retribution that passes from person to person and never pays. It is a story of the deepest rot. In his first novel, Schofield explores issues of art and pornography, of the camera eye, of what it is that makes the truth, and what constitutes violence. People are bound in their relationships to each other. This novel is a complex and beautifully constructed exploration of all that is suppressed in the unconscious.
People spy on each other, they lurk in the shadows.
They discover what should be kept hidden and make documents to prove it. This circular circling narrative is the greatest and most unsettling document of all. They intentionally cross a space between self-indulgence and public restraint. It is an uneasy sensation to have access to so much and yet to be unable to discern what is 'reality' and what is not. Something powerful is going on, but the reader is not permitted control.