The Burnt House

by Adam Lively (Author)

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  Paperback
  1993

  $3.37

  Adam Lively's first novel Blue Fruit was greeted as 'a startling debut, a positive tour de force' (Punch), and his second The Burnt House as 'an allegory for the times that tesitifies to its author's fertile imagination' (Guardian). At the novel's centre is the delapidated and charred house that the American tekevision anchorman Bob Morton buys when he comes to London to make a television series on contemporary Britain. Famous in America, Morton relishes his anonymity. Yet being away Morton is forced to confront his part, his brother's death and his immersion in his 'career'. Passing through the burnt house are Morton's sax-playing daughter Laura and the silent science-fiction addict Aidan whom Morton befriends.