Wreaking

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‘People who say there aren’t any brilliant literary novels about contemporary England anymore have obviously never read this.’ Irvine WelshA brilliantly imagined and unsettling novel from the award-winning author of Heliopolis and The Amnesia ClinicThree 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 of sanity and the fickle nature of memory.

Additional information

Weight 0.277 kg
Dimensions 2.4 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

400

Publisher

Year Published

2014-7-24

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

009952385X

About The Author

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

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

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There can be no doubting the remarkable scope of this writer’s imagination, nor the skill of his prose. He has a genius for atmosphere… If Charles Dickens is one influence, Breaking Bad is surely another

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