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End Of The World Blues (Gollancz S.F.)

End Of The World Blues (Gollancz S.F.)

by JonCourtenayGrimwood (Author)

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    Hardcover 2006

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    Paperback 2006

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Synopsis

Kit Nouveau didn't escape himself when he flew to Japan. He runs a bar in the Roppongi district of Tokyo and is having an affair with the wife of a High Yakusa ganglord. All things considered being held up at gunpoint isn't a complete shock. The pale girl in the black cloak appearing from nowhere and punching an ivory spike into the man's head on the other hand ...Nijie has stolen fifteen million dollars, she's on the run, she's just killed a man and she has a cat who knows more than it should. It's a lot to deal with when you haven't even left school. But Nijie is really Lady Neku. And it is time for her to stop mewling in the darkness. And suddenly, the girl who became Lady Neku understands she's never really been anyone else. And in a sentient castle at the end of world Lady Neku otherwise known as Baroness Nawa-no-ukiyo, Countess High Strange and chatelaine of Schloss Omga realizes that a man called Kit has stolen some of her memories.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 352
 Edition: hardcover
 Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 17 Aug 2006
ISBN 10: 057507616X
ISBN 13: 9780575076167
Book Overview: STAMPING BUTTERFLIES sold twice as many copies as Grimwood's previous novel. 9TAIL FOX his best reviewed novel yet. One of the leading lights of British SF. High profile author with immaculate media links. Part of the resurgence in British SF.

Media Reviews
A slick, exciting contemporary thriller... littered with with dark humour and superb characters, Grimwood writes authoritavely on Japan and evocatively recreates London and the differences in cultures. STARBURST End of the World Blues would be a dark crime thriller set in the cracks between the mobsters and the darker end of law-enforcement, almost '24' as Tarantino might direct it. The crime drama and characterizations of ageing gangsters going respectable, and ageing coppers bending the rules, are gripping. STARBURST The New Wave is dead, but don't worry; its leading lights - and with his best novel to date that certainly includes Jon Courtenay Grimwood - are in rude health. -- Jonathan Wright SFX A tautly-told crime thriller dripping with atmosphere and fascinating characters. An enigmatic novel that you'll read twice in a row - because you'll want to, because you'll need to. -- Dave Golder BBC FOCUS Grimwood does suck you in, every time. And he delivers a unique reading experience, every time. TRASHOTRON Tokyo is the metaphor for rivalry, redemption and dislocation in Grimwood's latest parallelised sci-fi noir. As a summer page turner, it certainly hits the spot. EDGE magazine Grimwood has a real gift for emotional extremes and for how it feels to be threatened with the worst things you can imagine. End of the World Blues is the same sort of book as his last, 9 Tail Fox but only in the sense that they are more like each other than like anything else. -- Roz Kaveney TIME OUT Jon Courtenay Grimwood has always written terrific cyber-punk, rooted in an acute sense of place and style. If you've liked anything by Grimwood, you'll love this. If you haven't, begin at once: if he gets any better, someone will have to drive a spike though *his* head. -- Andrew McKie THE TELEGRAPH
Author Bio
Jon Courtenay Grimwood is a fulltime writer. He has also been an editor of and writer for various men's magazines. He reviews SF for The Guardian.