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Pig Iron de Benjamin Myers

Pig Iron

Autor Benjamin Myers
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 aug 2019
WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZEAn unflinching portrait of contemporary Traveller culture by the award-winning author of The Gallows PoleJohn-John wants to escape his past. But the legacy of brutality left by his boxer father, King of the Gypsies, Mac Wisdom, overshadows his life. His new job as an ice cream man should offer freedom, but instead pulls him into the dark recesses of a northern town where his family name is mud. When he attempts to trade prejudice and parole officers for the solace of the rural landscape, Mac's bloody downfall threatens John-John's very survival.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781526611185
ISBN-10: 152661118X
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Set in fairgrounds, woodlands, camp sites, car parks, quarries and housing estates, Pig Iron is a homage to the beauty and diversity of the modern English landscape

Notă biografică

Benjamin Myers was born in Durham in 1976. His novel The Gallows Pole received a Roger Deakin Award and won the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction. Beastings won the Portico Prize for Literature and Pig Iron won the Gordon Burn Prize, while Richard was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. He has also published poetry, crime novels and short fiction, while his journalism has appeared in publications including, among others, the Guardian, New Statesman, Caught by the River and New Scientist. He lives in the Upper Calder Valley, West Yorkshire.benmyers.com / @BenMyers1

Recenzii

Pig Iron is an important book because it tells a story that has shaped all contemporary Western humans, but is routinely, inexplicably overlooked - the great move from agricultural life to industrial life. The respect in which that shapes human culture and individual humans
His poetic vernacular brims with that quality most sadly lost - humanity
One of my best reads this year ... A deeply rural story, a book full of passion for the English countryside and centred on the conflict between the travelling and the settled community. A very fine read indeed, it expresses a life view almost never examined in our narrow literary culture
A novel that resists mere classification as a 'traveller' book. This is yet another singular portrait of an outsider from Myers. And delivered through authentic characterisation, a monstrously compelling plot, and frequent humour - a rare combination of such successfully crafted elements - Pig Iron deserves to find itself on many a reading list, if not the National Curriculum
What a staggeringly powerful book. It held me page by page, totally took me over. If I had to opt for a single word to encompass the experience of reading the book, I'd settle for 'ferocious'
Original and urgent, exciting and uncompromising
Never has an author caught the sense of dread, denial and defeat in the downward spiral so thoroughly and accurately as this since Hubert Selby Jr.'s masterwork Requiem For A Dream. Myers' blend of low-life settings and high art conceptions, coupled with a sharp knowledge of North-East regional dialectical inflections and the region's mapping, are a wonderful throwback to Joyce
Benjamin Myers' influences are clear - David Peace's northern brutalism is evident and there are suggestions of Salinger and Golding but Pig Iron's savage vision is his alone