Black-eyes - Softcover

Porter, Dennis

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571152023 ISBN 13: 9780571152025

Publisher: Vintage, 1988

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Blackeyes is a literary thriller of immense subtlety and power.

Writer Maurice James Kingsley is seventy-seven. It is twenty years since he has produced a novel, but when he does, his picture of London's demi-monde, seen through the career of the model known as Blackeyes, is the surprise hit of the season. But, when life starts to imitate fiction, the plot takes a new and sinister twist...

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About the Author:

Dennis Potter was born in 1935 in Gloucestershire. After National Service he won a place at New College, Oxford where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He became one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed dramatists. His plays for television include Blue Remembered Hills (1979), Brimstone and Treacle (commissioned in 1975 but banned until 1987), the series Pennies from Heaven. (1978), The Singing Detective (1986), Blackeyes (1989) and Lipstick on Your Collar (1993). He also wrote novels, stage plays and screenplays. Seeing the Blossom, his final television interview, was published in 1994. He died in June 1994.

From Publishers Weekly:

Potter ( Pennies from Heaven ) offers a brilliantly executed tale about narrative control and sexual politics in which three voices struggle to seize the story of a victimized fashion model. An elderly writer, Maurice James Kingsley, stuns the British literary world with his novel "Sugar Bush"stet quotes that details the tortured life of "Blackeyes," a young model who is repeatedly abused by the men whose fantasies she projects upon billboards and television screens. The public lionizes Kingsley's work as a shocking representation of the plight of women. But the story is not his: Kingsley's niece Jessica had spoon-fed him her own biography in a calculated attempt to avenge a devastating past offense. In a frenzy, she now wants to "dismantle his narrative, reclaiming herself" and "rescue the sad girl in the fiction and the angry woman in her real life." In a final twist, the reader too becomes persecutor, partaking in vicarious thrills and horrors through the filter and control of a mysterious third narrator.
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