Eternity is Temporary

Eternity is Temporary

by Bill Broady (Author)

Synopsis

It's the long, hot summer of 1976 and Adrea is falling in love for the first time, while nursing the decrepit residents of Heron Close, a care home in Chalk Farm. This is the summer that sees Blue Oyster Cult and Supertramp superseded by Patti Smith and the Stranglers, and as the heat rises in and out of the Roundhouse, the lives of residents and carers alike are about to blister and burn. And right in the midst of all this humdrum squalor, like the sun's rays beating back the darkness, are Adrea and Evan, about to let in the light and heat - with inflammatory results.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Publisher: Portobello Books Ltd
Published: 13 Jul 2006

ISBN 10: 1846270359
ISBN 13: 9781846270352

Media Reviews
'Broady makes the inside of your head feel a way it's never felt before.' Douglas Coupland 'Piquant characters are Bill Broady's strength and Eternity is Temporary is thronged with eccentrics and grotesques - Pin-sharp and enjoyableA . Independent on Sunday 'Wonderfully weird and funny' Gerard Woodward 'As intensely felt as it is intensely urban, this is the first British novel really to explore the psychological crease that seemed to accompany the opening tremors of punk in the UK.' Michael Bracewell 'Broady writes with rude, comic dynamism, as if channelling the spirits of Jonathan Swift and Rabelais - What a suggestive novel this is.' Financial Times
Author Bio
BILL BROADY is the author of the novella Swimmer (Flamingo, 2000) and In This Block There Lives a Slag (Flamingo, 2001) which won the 2002 Macmillan Silver Pen Award for short stories. This is his first novel