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Description for The Hard Shoulder
Paperback. An evocation of the grey avenues and pubs of Irish London at its most hopeless, a semi-criminal milieu of the lost. Chris Petit uses and undermines the conventions of the thriller. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 13. Weight in Grams: 170. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
O'Grady comes home from jail to Kilburn weathering the onset of a harsh new climate. This is Mrs Thatcher's Britain. It is a place he recognizes, but he feels lost in it. His estranged wife has moved on and up, out to the suburbs; the daughter he barely knew is living with a wealthy record producer. O'Grady lodges in his spinster sister's dreary hotel. Alcohol and the random chances it brings begin to define his life. The only people who want to know him are aware that he is owed money by those for whom he took the fall. They ... Read more
O'Grady comes home from jail to Kilburn weathering the onset of a harsh new climate. This is Mrs Thatcher's Britain. It is a place he recognizes, but he feels lost in it. His estranged wife has moved on and up, out to the suburbs; the daughter he barely knew is living with a wealthy record producer. O'Grady lodges in his spinster sister's dreary hotel. Alcohol and the random chances it brings begin to define his life. The only people who want to know him are aware that he is owed money by those for whom he took the fall. They ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Granta Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781862075290
SKU
KKD0001616
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-3
About Chris Petit
Chris Petit is a novelist and film-maker. His work in film includes 'Radio On', 'Chinese Boxes' and (with Iain Sinclair) 'The Cardinal and the Corpse', 'The Falconer and Asylum' and a forthcoming film on the M25. His first novel Robinson is published by Granta Books. He has also written The Psalm Killer (1997) and Back From the Dead (1999). He ... Read more
Reviews for The Hard Shoulder
The prose has an understated lilting beauty. The Hard Shoulder is a chill, crisp and eerie performance
Scotland on Sunday
Chris Petit writes with confidence, inviting the reader to breathe the smoke and smell of stale beer in a marginal and hopeless world ... he writes to great effect of the anger and loneliness of a man adrift ... Read more
Scotland on Sunday
Chris Petit writes with confidence, inviting the reader to breathe the smoke and smell of stale beer in a marginal and hopeless world ... he writes to great effect of the anger and loneliness of a man adrift ... Read more