Kiss Me Softly, Amy Turtle

Kiss Me Softly, Amy Turtle

by PaulMcDonald (Author)

Synopsis

The will-sapping tedium of life as a Walsall Reflector hack has given Dave Ichabod McVane a serious thirst for the devil's juice. Now, after years of debauchery, the booze has bitten back: what feels like a rhinoceros is buffeting its way through his stomach. He wakes cathetered and bed-bound among deranged regulars in a hospital with a terrifyingly high mortality rate. And if that wasn't bad enough, a figure from a past he'd rather forget revisits . . . to leave Dave reeling, raddled with paranoia and facing a scalpel-happy surgeon. Perhaps it's time to reflect on how he got in such a state. Was it the Walsall Academy of New Knowledge or the sideline in specialist leatherwork? Or was it having a Smiths fan called Ringo for a best friend, and hookers for next-door-neighbours? Is closing time being called once and for all, or will the pall of his disillusionment suddenly lift?

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: Main
Publisher: Tindal Street
Published: 01 Apr 2004

ISBN 10: 0954130375
ISBN 13: 9780954130374

Author Bio
Born in Walsall in 1961, Paul McDonald left school at 16 to train as a saddlemaker. In 1986 he began full-time study, completed his PhD in 1993 and now lectures in English and American Studies at the University of Wolverhampton. Paul's debut Surviving Sting (Tindal Street Press, 2001) was heralded as a voice from the Black Country as authentic as baltis and Banks's bitter (Time Out) and a wholly unpretentious, humorous and easy read ( Times). Paul remains in Walsall where, to his horror, he's developing a taste for chunky jewellery and combat dogs.