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By a daring new literary talent, High Fidelity meets London Fields in an exuberant debut novel following one man's terminal train journey home.
It's December 24th, 1999. Byron Easy, a poverty-stricken poet, half-drunk and suicidal, sits on a train at King's Cross Station waiting to depart. In his lap is a backpack containing his remaining worldly goods―an empty wine bottle, a few books, a handful of crumpled banknotes. As the journey commences he conjures memories (both painful and euphoric) of the recent past, of his rollercoaster London life, and, most distressingly, of Mandy―his half-Spanish Amazonian wife―in an attempt to make sense of his terrible―and ordinary―predicament.What has led him to this point? Where are his friends, his family, his wife? What has happened to his dreams? And what disturbing plan awaits him at the end of his journey?
Byron Easy is an epic, baroque, sprawling masterpiece of a novel―a unique portrait of love and marriage, of the flux of memory, and of England in the dying days of the twentieth century from a young British writer of exceptional promise.
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About the Author:
Jude Cook studied English Literature at UCL, and was a musician and songwriter for the band Flamingoes. Byron Easy is his first novel. He lives in London.
Review:
"There's an addictive charm...that gives a potency to this ambitious tale." -- John Sunyer * Financial Times * "Daring, moving, imaginative and, above all, funny, this is a great debut from a promising novelist." * Sunday Mirror * "[A] beautifully written debut." * Irish Examiner * "An exuberant, stealthily shocking debut ... razor sharp." * Daily Mail * "From the start of his journey to the amazing ending of his saga we follow with awe and trepidation his moral life as all around him (almost) everyone else shows the human condition at its worst. If there is any literary justice this should sell by the bucket load. Hope it does and we hear again from this terrific first time novelist!" * Guardian online *
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- PublisherPegasus Books
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1605986879
- ISBN 13 9781605986876
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages512
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