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Lights Out in Wonderland (Paperback, Main)
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Lights Out in Wonderland (Paperback, Main)
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Gabriel Brockwell, aesthete, poet, philosopher, disaffected
twenty-something decadent, is thinking terminal. His philosophical
enquiries, the abstractions he indulges, and how these relate to a
life lived, all point in the same direction. His destination is
Wonderland. The nature and style of the journey is all that's to be
decided. Taking in London, Tokyo, Berlin and the Galapagos Islands,
Lights Out In Wonderland documents Gabriel Brockwell's remarkable
global odyssey. Committed to the pursuit of pleasure and in search
of the Bacchanal to obliterate all previous parties, Gabriel's
adventure takes in a spell in rehab, a near-death experience with
fugu ovaries, a sexual encounter with an octopus, and finally an
orgiastic feast in the bowels of Berlin's majestic Tempelhof
Airport. Along the way we see a character disintegrate and re-shape
before our eyes. Lights Out In Wonderland carries you through its
many corridors of delight and horror on the back of Gabriel's
voice, which is at once skeptical, idealistic, broken and
optimistic. An allegorical banquet and a sly commentary on these
End Times and the march towards insensate banality, DBC Pierre's
third novel completes a loose trilogy of fictions, each of which
stands alone as a joyful expression of the human spirit.
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Imprint: |
Faber and Faber
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
September 2010 |
Authors: |
D.B.C Pierre
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Dimensions: |
233 x 155 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
314 |
Edition: |
Main |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-571-22889-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
0-571-22889-5 |
Barcode: |
9780571228898 |
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