Well - Softcover

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Set in a working-class suburb of Seattle, Matthew McIntosh's devastatingly beautiful first novel charts the lives of a vast cast of characters grappling with dark compulsions and heartrending afflictions. Lost in the Well - that dark, barren wasteland of the heart and mind - they search for escape, transcendence, for a vehicle up into the light they know is outside. They search in the body - in sex, in drugs and violence - and in visions of apocalypse and creation, dreams of angels and killers and local sports championships.

A brilliant exploration of the modern condition of hope and hopelessness, Well is a novel for the new century, a testament of a weary people living out the end of an age. It is already being heralded as one of the most significant and daring débuts in American fiction for some time.

'The humanity of the people sings off the page. They are not characters in a book, but rather living beings with all the hopes, dreams, fears, loves, hates, illusions, rationalisations that are part of the human dilemma. A book that still resonates in my heart.' Hubert Selby, Jr

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