The Sparkler - Couverture souple

Humm, Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3988320633 ISBN 13 : 9783988320636

Editeur : Vine Leaves Press, 2024

Synopsis

"A dark hymn to pre-Victorian London in all its grotty glory." Nick Perry, author of The Loop

Charles Dickens is a newly famous author and a man who has only just married. He thinks that he is about to become a father.

Why, then, does he go wandering London after dark and why, under the influence of a famous clown, does he begin an affair with Sarah, a barmaid who works in a North London pub?

While his own descriptions of sex barely exist, he becomes immersed in an affair so all-consuming that his life begins to fall apart. He takes to drink, he develops a liking for rough company, he even steals a necklace. Where will it end?

During a Christmas entertainment held in his own house, Dickens, Sarah, and his wife edge towards a confrontation that has the potential to ruin him for ever.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alan Humm edits the arts journal One Hand Clapping. The Sparkler is his first novel but he has also written two collections of poetry: A Brief and Biased History of Love (Culture Matters) and My Father is Calling the Neighbours Names. His second novel, Rough Music, follows a journalist and a Labour politician from 1945 to the early noughties and he is currently writing a book about an '80s pop band. Visit: alanhummswriting.com.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vine Leaves Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3988320633
• ISBN 13: 9783988320636
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 268
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible