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| Balzac of the Badlands - CURRENTLY OUT OF STOCK |
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Full blurb:
Balzac of the Badlands is a neo-noir novel at its neo-ist, with deviant longings and dirty landscapes. It is crime as pastime. Balzac, Homo Sapiens Sapiens Jones, The Mermaid, Kurdish militants, Irish gangs, and English firms - what do they have to do with a missing woman? Set in North London, the novel explores friendship and loss, and the shifting planes of past, present, and future. It looks into how each of us manipulate time and space through memory and art, and asks the question - are we all in possession of unearthly powers?
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First page first lines:
Some writer somewhere wrote something about never opening a book with the weather. And that’s true if you live where I live. I mean, what would be the point? If I’d looked out of the window at the start of this story, I could have told you about the overcast sky heavy with the threat of rain. I look out of the window now and it’s sunny with a mild breeze. And by the time you read this, it could be a nuclear winter or a globally warmed perpetual summer. But, hold on, you’ll be looking out of your window or your hole in the wall or your gap in the yurk, so god knows what the weather’s going to be like where you are. Anyway, when I woke up and looked out of the window, the sky was light pink and watery blue. And the sun was up there somewhere, inevitably.
Look. Over there. Across the street. Gobbets of birds strung out on telephone wires, flossed from the sky, particulate, like so many pieces of rotten meat. The birds have started to evolve into memory. Some days you don’t see any. They’ve been replaced by sweet wrappers, Styrofoam cartons, crisp packets. But then, where you live, you might not even know what birds are. What birds were.
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Category: Novel
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Author: Steve Finbow
Steve Finbow is a Londoner who lives in Tokyo. His writing has appeared in numerous litzines, journals, & anthologies. 2010 sees the publication of a collection of his short stories and two books of non-fiction. He once worked for Allen Ginsberg and is extraordinary senior lecturer at North-West University, South Africa.
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Publisher: Future Fiction London
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Reviews:
“A dark and nasty new wave experiment. Haunting, disturbing and horrific.” - Stewart Home, author of Blood Rites of the Bourgeosie
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| Book code: BTD031 |
| Price: £ 12.00 |
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