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Tyro - The Lives of Q
Laurie Evan Owen
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R322
R265
Discovery Miles 2 650
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Q is a committed young artist who takes the reader on a riotous
odyssey through the salaciousness of Soho, down beneath the
historic structures of Burlington House and the Royal Academy
Schools, and onwards into a netherworld of wildly disparate
ethereal-mystical realms. Set against the gritty backdrop of his
real existence on the cold North London streets, he finds friends,
bizarre comic happenings, and a secret art-forging factory. With a
new love, and in the face of cruelty and farce, will Q finally
discover the possibility of redemption in a frantic search for his
long-lost and perfidious father? 'Tyro' is dark and lonely,
poignant and even self-destructive, with brilliantly morphed
characters displaying both vengeance and vulnerability. It is a
mixture of beguiling honesty and simplicity, with sections
delivered in such a complex form the mind is kept ever active. The
juxtaposition of emotions, tension, extremes of feeling, darkness
and light and biomorphic description is raw and risk-laden. A
unique piece of writing with remarkable intensity, entwining poetry
and art. A challenging compelling journey.' Lindy Foster Weinreb
‘A fantastical thing, set in a cabalistically weird gothic London
wherein Q, an artist, wanders strange-scapes and bizarre cabarets,
before the novel plunges into an unhinged, psychedelic underground
odyssey. Written and structured like poetry, with resonances of
Mervyn Peake and Stanislav Lem, and full of arcane fine art
allegory, 'Tyro' is a dense, brain-frazzling, and ultimately,
rewarding read. Unique.’ Thomas H Green (Editor and Co-founder of
theartsdesk.com)
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