The Slipway - Softcover

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'He had bought time as surely as he might have bought another life by paying with his own blood; the fee was his sanity, almost to the very end of a human being's ability to remain not sober and yet not drunk, to stay in that area where people felt everything and saw everything in its real light or significance, where people knew about life and did not harm their fellows. That was an achievement. One had to pay for the right to attain it.'

So Geoffrey Targett heroically justifies his longing for the next large gin ... and the next ... while he waits for the last ship of his father's once-proud line to be sunk at sea by the Navy and Air Force in his bizarre solution to personal ruin. Marking time to his wife Rose's loving despair, he pretends normality and dreams in the Golden Age Hotel that Japanese investors will save his rotting shipyard. But the end seems preordained by forces larger than a mind bending drug...

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