Danny Hickman will do whatever it takes to become a great artist.
Drowning is Fine , is the tragi-comic coming-of-age story of Daniel Hickman, a young man struggling to survive as a sane man in love and an artist in dystopian London; goals which turn out to be two aspects of the same apocalyptic mission-to see the world as it is, in all its sordid beauty..
A chance encounter with a Russian criminal followed by one of the more bizarre of Daniel\'s romantic failures leads him to an unusual and psychologically liberating evening with a prostitute which, in turn, leads to an emotional armageddon that threatens to literally obliterate him.
Daniel is also desperate to find love-to break the catastrophic cycle of painful confusion that he seems to be magically bound to; but his attempts to find a partner-indeed to have any kind of satisfying sexual encounter-only seem to ensnare him in more confusion, shame and loneliness.
But nothing seems to give him the freedom he craves.
He escapes from a meaningless job by fabricating mental illness and he escapes from an equally meaningless art scene by fabricating tiny clay heads.
Danny Hickman will do whatever it takes to become a great artist
