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Burnt-out novelist Jason Callow, living on King's Road in London's Chelsea district, was once possessed of "an excellent sense of surface" but is now, in the words of the self-conscious authorial narrator, becoming one of those "subjective creatures... governed by some subconscious form of impulse." Set in the 1950s, Jason's interior journey into self-discovery and self-destruction draws little attention from either his contentious painter friend, Joseph Mallory, or his flamboyant landlord, Arnold, and Arnold's colorful pals. While Arnold's circle gossips about the mysterious lodger in the building and Joseph argues about Jackson Pollock and Richard Burton in Coriolanus, Jason is ignoring his parents, brother, recently separated wife, Jill, and two teenage children. Instead, he's frantically writing journal entries that hint at violence. His journal records his despairing search for the meaning in his life, drawing a vaguely pitiful picture of himself as cold, disconnected and anguished over his mediocrity. Although Lock (As Luck Would Have It) apparently knows his setting and the era firsthand and assembles a lively supporting cast, his protagonist does not generate enough interest or sympathy to hold readers until the stylized confrontation between Jason and an ominous stranger, a mercurial bohemian named Darren, who menacingly reflects Jason's deepest fears. Aptly reimagining the London scene of Colin MacInnes's 1950s novels, and infused with Ivy Compton-Burnett's arch, morbid tone, Lock's narrative lacks the central focus necessary to bear the considerable weight of these elements. Nevertheless, the book's richly textured mystery, with lugubrious foreshadowing, ripples under the surface with tensions never explained, making the plot much more convoluted and interesting than it first appears. (Oct.) novelists over 60.
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Nothing But the Truth
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Paperback. Condition: Good. 227 pages. Cover wornFollowing on from As Luck Would Have It, his acclaimed debut novel, Sam Lock tells the story of a mildly successful novelist novelist coming to terms with th e split from his wife and children. Seller Inventory # 2744x
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Soft cover. 8vo. pp 208. Large format paperback. Signed presentation from the author on the title page to Rubio Lindroos (19492014) London based Finnish poet and partner of the novelist Martyn Goff O.B.E., "To Martyn and Rubio, from Sam with love - Feburary 1998." Including a good signed handwritten letter from the author, loosely inserted. ISBN: 0224050842 Fine. Seller Inventory # C29217
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