Atom

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2001
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The new Beerlight novel features the hunt for a missing brain, a plot that only a writer as benevolently unhinged as Steve Aylett could turn into an entertainment. Beerlight is nightmare city of the future (albeit a future that may be only a week away) where violence is the new art form and artists are the only people with regular jobs. In a cartoon landscape, larger-than-life characters act out plots that would be rejected by Hollywood for being too over the top, yet which still carry a serious message about violence in society. This is satire at its most vicious and most pure. Jonathan Swift would understand Beerlight.

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The new Beerlight novel features the hunt for a missing brain, a plot that only a writer as benevolently unhinged as Steve Aylett could turn into an entertainment. Beerlight is nightmare city of the future (albeit a future that may be only a week away) where violence is the new art form and artists are the only people with regular jobs. In a cartoon landscape, larger-than-life characters act out plots that would be rejected by Hollywood for being too over the top, yet which still carry a serious message about violence in society. This is satire at its most vicious and most pure. Jonathan Swift would understand Beerlight.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 06 Sep 2001
ISBN 10: 0753812711
ISBN 13: 9780753812716
Book Overview: By one of the most talented and certainly the most original writers in the UK 'Atom is a jaw-droppingly dark and funny work' Guardian 'This is exactly the book you've been waiting for' Michael Moorcock 'This stuff is laugh-out-loud funny' Starburst

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Steve Aylett is 36. He lives and works in Brighton. If he were any more English he'd be dead.

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