Unable to work on his novel about Liverpool's slave trade, Benson is teaching creative writing and wandering the city. The pupils who bring him their fantasies are a sad, dispossessed group with varying degrees of literary talent. Caught up in a series of bizarre events, Benson nevertheless finds his own imagination sparked by an encounter with two old army colleagues: Thompson, down-and-out and homeless; and Slater, a fabulously wealthy entrepreneur. In trying to heal old wounds, Benson unleashes a plan that just may blow up in his face. "There is a violent resolution to this obsessive and provocative novel that examines the abscesses and abysses beneath the violence of urban life and offers a quixotic personal answer." - The Times [London] "Fine descriptive writing and spirited humanity." - The Guardian Published for the first time in the United States Booker Prize-winning author of Sacred Hunger
Autorius: | Barry Unsworth |
Leidėjas: | W. W. Norton & Company |
Išleidimo metai: | 1999 |
Knygos puslapių skaičius: | 258 |
ISBN-10: | 0393318907 |
ISBN-13: | 9780393318906 |
Formatas: | Knyga minkštu viršeliu |
Kalba: | Anglų |
Žanras: | Fiction: literary & general |
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