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Shark is a story about the dispossessed and how they get by.
Ex-soldier and violent deadbeat John Usher returns to his boyhood
home of Leeds to find things have changed. His community has been
unravelled by gang culture, ethnic tensions and hopelessness.
Unable to sleep, his only consolation is drinking late into the
night and playing pool by himself. That is, until an encounter with
a hard right activist leads him into a twisted relationship of
deceit, cuckoldry and hatred. "Here we have that rare artefact. A
contemporary, regional, working class novel written with the
ideas-based, language-grounded currency of the great transatlantic
stylists: Updike, Bellow, De Lillo and Martin Amis. Wes Brown's art
is to match high literary intensity to the milieu of the northern
pubs and Pool Halls, finding the story in a young man's struggle to
accommodate himself to the life he has been dealt, after service in
Iraq, in a community divided and adrift." -Danny Broderick, The
Workroom.
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Ex-soldier and violent deadbeat John Usher returns to his boyhood
home of Leeds to find things have changed. His community has been
unravelled by gang culture, ethnic tensions and hopelessness.
Unable to sleep, his only consolation is drinking late into the
night and playing pool by himself. That is, until an encounter with
a hard right activist leads him into a twisted relationship of
deceit, cuckoldry and hatred.
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