'A major talent' Irvine Welsh Set at the fag-end of the 60s at the
moment when Swinging London is starting to take on a darker hue in
the wake of Charles Manson's murders, and framed as a novel within
a novel published by a seedy Piccadilly-based publisher of pulp
fiction, MAN-EATING TYPEWRITER is a homage to the great oulipo
experiments in fiction. It is the story of a psychopath called
Raymond Novak and his untimely demise told entirely in 'polari' - a
language developed and used mainly amongst the metropolitan
homosexual community in the time when being gay was still a
criminal offence. From a love affair with a Barbary Ape on the Rock
of Gibraltar to erotic cabaret in Paris and unreliable adventures
with Madam Ovary, Raymond's mother in the bombed-out ruins of
Blitzed London, MAN-EATING TYPEWRITER is an act of seductive
sedition by a writer with unfathomable literary talent and
chutzpah. Wild, transgressive, erotic, offensive and resolutely
uncompromising, this marks the return of a writer who is out there
on an island of his own making; a book that will be talked about,
celebrated and misunderstood for decades.
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