New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Vintage
04 April-June
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Vintage
APRIL-JUNE 04
John Burnside
Living Nowhere
Pbk published June 2004 by Vintage at £7.99
ISBN: 0099448556
The powerful story of a boy's escape from an infernal world of squalor and violence.
Evoking the turned-on, tuned-out seventies, with LSD the vehicle to reinvention, "Living Nowhere" is a story of friendship and loss, about trying to make a pure connection with the earth through a miasma of contamination.
John Burnside has published four books of fiction and eight books of poetry - most recently The Asylum Dance, which won the Whitbread Prize, and The Light Trap.
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Niall Griffiths
Stump
Pbk published May 2004 by Vintage at £6.99
ISBN: 0099287587
Black farce from the author of Kelly + Victor and Sheepshagger.
A newcomer has arrived in a small Welsh seaside town - a one-armed Liverpudlian. Seeking to rebuild his life, if not his body, he is attempting to lead a life here unlike any life he's lived before: a normal one - shopping, gardening, signing on, visiting friends, all the usual diurnal activities. Over a hundred miles to the north, however, two men in shellsuits are leaving Liverpool, heading south in a rickety old car. They have been sent by their gang-boss to wreak terrible, violent revenge, but have only a rough idea of their quarry: a one-armed man, maybe living somewhere in west Wales, in a small town by the sea. Stump has all the characteristic passion and anger of a Niall Griffiths novel - the intense lyrical language rooted in the natural world he describes - but, after the darkness of the first three books, there is the relief of black farce and scabrous banter, and a move towards a sense of regeneration, towards something resembling hope. Hailed as a major new voice by writers as different as John Banville, A.L. Kennedy, Iain Sinclair and Irvine Welsh, Niall Griffiths is now established as one of the leading writers of his generation
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