The Peckham Experiment (Salt Modern Fiction) - Softcover

Ware, Guy

 
9781784632632: The Peckham Experiment (Salt Modern Fiction)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1784632635 ISBN 13: 9781784632632
Verlag: Salt Publishing, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Guy Ware's new novel charts a course from the 1930s onwards through the fragmentary memories of the 85 year-old Charlie, whose identical twin brother JJ has recently died. Sons of a working-class Communist family, growing up in the radical Peckham Experiment and orphaned by the Blitz, the twins emerge from the war keen to build the New Jerusalem.

In 1968, JJ’s ideals are rocked by the fatal collapse of a tower block his council and Charlie’s development company have built. When the entire estate is demolished in 1986 JJ retires, apparently defeated. Now he is dead and Charlie, preparing for the funeral, relives their history, their family and their politics. It’s a story of how we got to where we are today told in a voice – opinionated, witty, garrulous, indignant, guilty, deluded and, as the night wears on, increasingly drunken – that sucks us in to both the idealism and the corruption it depicts, leaving us wondering just where we stand.

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Guy Ware is the author of five novels, all published by Salt, including The Peckham Experiment and, most recently, Our Island Story. Guy lives with his family in south London.

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Verlag
Salt Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1784632635
ISBN 13 
9781784632632
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
208
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