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Full blurb:
Everyday takes the reader for a dawdle into the moribund heart of London. This collection of stories (or “fragments” to use Lee's preferred term) – featuring pigeons, putrefying exotic dancers, lost loves, boredom, cliché, lacklustre derives, banality, sexual violence, the male gaze, a murderous acquisition of a tortuously blank book and the sad demise of the number 38 bus – reinvents reality, a reality that is at once sordid, hilarious and tender.
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First page first lines:
From 'The Geography of a Psychopath.'
The article that I had been reading that day on psychogeography was quite uncomplicated really; it suggested I should:
“Unfold a streetmap of London, place a glass, rim down, anywhere on the map, and draw round its edge. Pick up the map, go out into the city, and walk the circle, keeping as close as you can to the curve. Record the experiences as you go, in whatever medium you favour: film, photography, manuscript, tape." (A road of one's own, Robert MacFarlane).
So I did; and my preferred medium was the mighty Biro, black of course, lightly chewed – I didn’t own a camera.
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Category: Short story collection
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Author: Lee Rourke
Lee Rourke is the author of Everyday and the forthcoming The Canal. He is contributing / reviews editor at 3AM Magazine and founder and editor of the online litzine Scarecrow. His criticism regularly appears in The Guardian and his book reviews have appeared in The Observer, RSB, TLS, Dazed and Confused, The Quarterly Conversation and Bookforum. He resides in Hackney, East London.
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Publisher: Social Disease
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Reviews:
"Everyday is an essential read for misanthropes, alcoholics and slubberdegullians." - Dazed and Confused
"Rourke's stories are dense with authentic London detail – only someone who regularly takes the 38 bus can understand why it might be appropriate to set a story on it – and manage to be at once bleak and jaunty." - John O'Connell, Time Out
"Everyday is a guide book of sorts: a dark, twisted, hysterical and macabre map of the twilight city which lurks underneath our nation's capital. This magnificent collection is living proof that the short story is alive and well and living in London". - Tony O'Neill, author of Digging The Vein, Seizure Wet Dreams and Songs From the Shooting Gallery.
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| Book code: BTD009 |
| Price: £ 9.99 |
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