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Real Life is Elsewhere
Mark Stewart-Jones
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"For I saw in you the mongrel angel that saw in me the same "
Following a bereavement, Mark, a disillusioned middle-aged writer
seeking something like enlightenment (or an epiphany, he’s not
sure), travels to Charleville in Northern France to visit the
hometown of his hero, the poet Rimbaud. As he wanders Mark muses on
the nature of obsession and how our heroes might be no more than
projections of our deepest needs and fears. He also focuses on a
famous line of Rimbaud’s – “je est un autre”. “I is
another”. When he meets a local woman there is an instant
connection and their conversation continues as they traverse the
streets together over 24 hours. But something strange is happening.
Immediately Anne knows his story and the events of his life. She
knows his mind. Has he found his autre? We follow them as Mark
narrates in his head the book he will never write, with
interjections from characters brought to life by his imagination
… and often against his will. Real Life is Elsewhere is an
entirely original, unique take on love, ageing and the process of
writing.
The nostalgia of idealism is the worst kind of idealism - and the
worst kind of nostalgia! Mr. Puck Huntley, however, would beg to
differ. Recently suspended from his post as a Media Studies teacher
and on the fortieth anniversary of the events of May 1968, he
decides to take matters (and the law) into his own hands. For Mr.
Puck Huntley is not your average Media Studies teacher. At 57, he
is the product of a very different generation and nowadays finds
himself permanently out of step with both his pupils and his head
teacher. Notoriously unorthodox in his teaching methods he now
brings that same unorthodoxy into play as he struggles to make his
voice heard. A Difficult Age is a stylish, original, funny and
often moving story of a man struggling to hold on to the ideals of
his generation in vastly different times. Like Puck, those that
came of age in 60s were right about one thing - the times, they did
change. Sadly for some, they just kept on changing...
I am not homeless- I'm just someone who can't go home With these
words, the young man known as Guttersnipe begins his account of two
years spent living on the streets of Canterbury. Amongst the
struggles he must face every day there is one that he never
anticipated; that of boredom and how to occupy his time. Acting on
a friend's advice on how to combat this problem, he begins to write
his thoughts down each day. He records his observations, his ideas,
his memories and his own life story. It is these writings that form
the basis of The Guttersnipe Journals. Guttersnipe's story does not
simply focus on the hardships that keep him apart from society -
but rather he finds the common threads of human experience that
bond us all together. It is a story that everyone should read.
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