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Wreaking
James Scudamore
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Description for Wreaking
Paperback. Perilously ill, Jasper Scriven spends his days roaming the wards of a derelict psychiatric hospital on England's southeast coast. His daughter Cleo works in London as a news editor, making palatable stories of the world's events and trying to stay one step ahead of her demons. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 216 x 26. Weight in Grams: 324.
'People who say there aren't any brilliant literary novels about contemporary England anymore have obviously never read this.' Irvine Welsh
A brilliantly imagined and unsettling novel from the award-winning author of Heliopolis and The Amnesia Clinic
Three solitary characters remember their shared past in a sprawling, derelict psychiatric hospital on the English coast: a turbulent summer in the aftermath of the hospital's closure that culminated in a shocking, life-altering accident. But the more each tries to comprehend the past, the more elusive it becomes. Wreaking is an intricate, labyrinthine novel about the opiate power of place, the fragility ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099523857
SKU
V9780099523857
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-41
About James Scudamore
James Scudamore is the author of the novels Wreaking, Heliopolis, and The Amnesia Clinic. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award and been nominated for the Costa First Novel Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Man Booker Prize. www.jamesscudamore.com
Reviews for Wreaking
This stays with you; an eccentric wonder about a disaffected, dying man, living in an abandoned insane asylum and various sinister, satellite characters; it's one of the most lyrical, gorgeously descriptive English novels of recent years - bafflingly ignored by prize judges
Alan Warner
The Week
There can be no doubting the remarkable scope of this writer’s ... Read more
Alan Warner
The Week
There can be no doubting the remarkable scope of this writer’s ... Read more