by SteveAylett (Author)
Beerlight, the city of all our futures, is not a safe place. Crime - occasionally sophisticated, normally violent, always hilarious in its unintended effects - is the motor of the city's economy. Weaponry, rather than fast cars or designer clothes, is the ultimate status symbol. The cast of hoodlums includes burglar extraordinaire Billy Panacea, Kicker Charlie the casino owner, conman-cum-lawyer Harpoon Specter, Henry Blince the donut-obsessed Chief of Police, Getty Hundred Ram the unwitting bank-robber and other fun-loving felons who hang out at the Delayed Reaction Bar on Valentine Street. The narrator is only referred to as 'the clown' by his fellow criminals, and like all wise jesters, he holds a mirror up to our own world ...
Format: Paperback
Pages: 156
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 12 Oct 2000
ISBN 10: 0575402946
ISBN 13: 9780575402942
Book Overview: The incredible debut novel from an author who receives widespread acclaim: 'A distressingly brilliant debut' Guardian '[Aylett's] inventive use of modern idiom can be devastating' Michael Moorcock, New Statesman 'Prodigiously paranoid routines delivered with a toxic fizz. A catalogue of synapse-scorching similes any bankrupt Martian poet would kill for' Iain Sinclair 'Very funny and eminently readable' Interzone '[Aylett] writes like a man possessed by comic demons' Evening Standard
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