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Clear - A Transparent Novel (Paperback)
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Clear - A Transparent Novel (Paperback)
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Longlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize. A raucous, exuberant
novel about the outrageous circus surrounding David Blaine's 2003
starvation stunt at Tower Bridge, from Nicola Barker, a Granta Best
of British Novelist. On 5th September 2003, New York illusionist
David Blaine entered a small perspex box beside the River Thames
and began starving himself. Forty-four days later he left the box.
The end. The real show, of course, was on the sidelines: the
crowds, the chaos, the hype and most enjoyably, the hypocrisy.
Through the eyes and exploits of Adair Graham MacKenney, bitter,
shameless and irreverent, we see this world for what it is: a place
of illusion, delusion, celebrity and hunger. And, naturally, lust.
With her Tupperware and awful shoes, Adair finds himself
unaccountably drawn to the reluctant Aphra. But when has futility
ever stopped anyone? Just think of the guy in the perspex box.
Wickedly comic, caustic and uncommonly astute, this outrageous peep
show of a novel gives us our contemporary world laid bare.
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