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Mr Bird has just completed the network of tunnels beneath the Duke's estate, a subterranean world of drives wide enough to take Grimshaw's coach and four. Young Mr Bowden has finished the gateposts. But His Grace is far from happy. On his isolated estate the Duke is at the mercy of his household staff. The local gossip has inflated his eccentricities into lunatic deformities. No-one, not even he, understands his most persistent ache, a pain of absence, an elusive memory that struggles to surface. The Duke's slow piecing together of the truth about his past builds to a conclusion of powerful emotional intensity. "Quite simply, astonishing." OBSERVER
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Review:
Mick Jackson makes films. It's no surprise, then, that his first novel, The Underground Man, should be so economically told, the action evoking a mise en scène. The novel takes the form of journal entries interspersed with eyewitness accounts from servants and neighbors. The "Underground Man" portrayed in the novel, William John Cavendish Bentinck-Scott, the Duke of Portland and a resident of Nottinghamshire, England, is mightily eccentric; the man was real (1800-1879), as was his eccentricity. Historical fact: the Duke commissioned eight tunnels on his estate. Present-day fact: if you walk the estate today, you see the skylights--2' in diameter and 4" thick. But why did he build them?
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In the last few days of the Duke's life, eccentricity burgeons; madness follows. The reader learns that his odd view of the world was shaped by early tragedy, the full truth of which is withheld until the last few pages.
The Underground Man is that most delectable blend of fact and fiction, one in which the intriguing details of a real life are richly explored through imagination.
Mick Jackson was born in Great Harwood in Lancashire, England. His first novel, The Underground Man, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award and won the Royal Society of Authors' First Novel Award. While researching Five Boys, he enrolled in beekeeping classes and to this day, keeps two hives at his home in Brighton, England.
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- PublisherIsis Audio Books
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0753104822
- ISBN 13 9780753104828
- BindingAudio Cassette
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