London Brakes de John Muckle

London Brakes

John Muckle

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 ian 2010

Tony Guest is welcome wherever he goes-a motorcycle courier on a big bike, picking up and dropping all manner of urgent parcels, letters, and duly getting his dockets signed. In July he rides in a sweat bath, in February the rain is freezing needles, the roads of the West End are greasy with spilt diesel, glistening tracks of motorcyclists weaving through them like slug trails. But where is Tony going? What is contained in his ultimate mystery packet? What becomes of lost friendships? He chases his shadowman through an illusory maze of skid pans, trick exits-the answer to every question he can frame seems to lie behind every locked door in London town. Set in the 1980s, London Brakes shows us an England of conflicting loyalties and low impostures-a city divided by inequality and opportunism: a place where forgetting is compulsory and paranoia is the outcome. Tony is determined to cut through it all to the truths of his life.

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John Muckle is a fiction writer, poet and critic. He is the author of six books of fiction, including 'The Cresta Run' (Galloping Dog Press, 1987), 'Cyclomotors', an acclaimed short illustrated novel set in the early 1950s (available through Shearsman Books), and the novels 'London Brakes' (Shearsman, 2010), 'My Pale Tulip' (2012), 'Falling Through' (2017), and the short-story collection 'Late Driver' (2020). His first full-length poetry collection, 'Firewriting and Other Poems', appeared from Shearsman in 2005, and a sequel, 'Mirrorball', came out in 2018. 'Little White Bull' (2014), his study of British fiction in the 1950s and 60s, remapped its chosen period in an original way. In the eighties he launched the Paladin Poetry imprint and was general editor of its flagship anthology, 'The New British Poetry' (eds. D'Aguiar, Allnutt, Edwards, Mottram, 1988). He lives in North London, and works as a teacher.