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Beneath the Neon Egg
Thomas E. Kennedy
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Description for Beneath the Neon Egg
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 16. Weight in Grams: 296.
Patrick Bluett is searching for a new life in the low light of a Copenhagen winter. Divorced and navigating the rocky relationship with his grown-up, nest-flown children, Bluett spends his days listening to John Coltrane’s majestic jazz symphony A Love Supreme and gazing out at the frozen streets, a desolate landscape that somehow matches his reflection in the window. His nights, however, are a little different. Walking unsteadily across the cobblestones, he moves between the neon-tinted bars and clubs of his adopted home, talking whiskey, women and the world with the other lost ... Read more
Patrick Bluett is searching for a new life in the low light of a Copenhagen winter. Divorced and navigating the rocky relationship with his grown-up, nest-flown children, Bluett spends his days listening to John Coltrane’s majestic jazz symphony A Love Supreme and gazing out at the frozen streets, a desolate landscape that somehow matches his reflection in the window. His nights, however, are a little different. Walking unsteadily across the cobblestones, he moves between the neon-tinted bars and clubs of his adopted home, talking whiskey, women and the world with the other lost ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408845189
SKU
V9781408845189
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Ref
99-50
About Thomas E. Kennedy
Thomas E. Kennedy’s many books include novels, story and essay collections, literary criticism, translations and anthologies. He teaches in the MFA programme at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Beneath the Neon Egg is the final book in his Copenhagen Quartet, following In the Company of Angels, Falling Sideways and Kerrigan in Copenhagen. Born and raised in New York, he lives in Copenhagen ... Read more
Reviews for Beneath the Neon Egg
Brilliantly atmospheric, with a smorgasbord of edgy sexual encounters, Kennedy’s novel is a symphony of loneliness and longing which completely absorbs the reader and grips the heart
Daily Mail
Downbeat, elegiac ambience … As well as a mastery of atmosphere, Kennedy has a flair for interiority, taking us deep into Bluett’s thoughts and the solace he finds there ... Read more
Daily Mail
Downbeat, elegiac ambience … As well as a mastery of atmosphere, Kennedy has a flair for interiority, taking us deep into Bluett’s thoughts and the solace he finds there ... Read more