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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - "The writing crackles with stupendous imagery . . . Savage and stylish."Financial TimesWhen Tom Brodzinksi tries to give up smoking, he inadvertently sets off a chain of events that threaten to upset the tenuous balance of peace in a not-too-distant land. When he flips the butt of his final cigarette off the balcony of his vacation apart-ment, it lands on elderly Reggie Lincoln, lounging on the balcony below. Lincoln suf-fers a burn, and the local authorities charge Tom with assault?in a country with draconian anti-smoking laws, a cigarette is a weapon of offense. For reparation, Tom must leave his family behind and wander through the arid center of the country's deserted territory. Joining Tom on his journey is Brian Prentice, a mysteriously sin-ister presence, who has his own sins to make up for. Inevitably, the two men en-counter violence, forcing them to come together despite their seething mistrust. Refusing facile moral certitudes, The Butt is set in a distorted world, a country that is part Australia, part Iraq, and part the heart of a distinctively modern darkness.…

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnWill Self is the author of many novels and books of nonfiction, including Great Apes How the Dead Live, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year The Book of Dave Liver.