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Plume (Hardcover)
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Plume (Hardcover)
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'Wiles is basically Kafka, if Kafka had spent more time in British
hotels and pubs' David Baddiel Will Wiles both re-invents and
murders the London novel, in a spectacular act of evil, surgical
intensity' Warren Ellis 'It's outstanding' Mail on Sunday, Event
Magazine The dark, doomy humour of Care of Wooden Floors mixed with
the fantastical, anarchic sense of possibility of The Way Inn,
brought together in a fast moving story set in contemporary London.
Jack Bick is an interview journalist at a glossy lifestyle
magazine. From his office window he can see a black column of smoke
in the sky, the result of an industrial accident on the edge of the
city. When Bick goes from being a high-functioning alcoholic to
being a non-functioning alcoholic, his life goes into freefall, the
smoke a harbinger of truth, an omen of personal apocalypse. An
unpromising interview with Oliver Pierce, a reclusive cult
novelist, unexpectedly yields a huge story, one that could save his
job. But the novelist knows something about Bick, and the two men
are drawn into a bizarre, violent partnership that is both an act
of defiance against the changing city, and a surrender to its
spreading darkness. With its rich emotional palette, Plume explores
the relationship between truth and memory: personal truth,
journalistic truth, novelistic truth. It is a surreal and
mysterious exploration of the precariousness of life in modern
London.
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Imprint: |
Fourth Estate
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
May 2019 |
Authors: |
Will Wiles
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Dimensions: |
222 x 141 x 35mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
352 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-00-819441-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
0-00-819441-6 |
Barcode: |
9780008194413 |
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