Antwerp

Antwerp

by NicholasRoyle (Author)

Synopsis

A brutal killer, inspired by the Belgian artist Paul Delvaux, leaves each of his victims posed as if in a painting. Meanwhile cult film director Johnny Vos is making a low-budget biopic about the same artist. He hires women from Antwerp's red light district and from an internet voyeur house as extras in order to recreate the poses of Delvaux's famous sleepwalking nudes. When two prostitutes end up murdered, English film critic Frank Warner, in town to interview Vos, turns investigative journalist and becomes personally involved when his own girlfriend goes missing. In the search for the killer, everyone is implicated. Simultaneously macabre and erotic, Antwerp is a literary thriller which will not release you until its final page has turned.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: Main
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 03 Jun 2004

ISBN 10: 1852428589
ISBN 13: 9781852428587

Media Reviews
?Nobody writes novels quite like Nicholas Royle. His novels have this extraordinary texture: full of bizarre cultural reference points, but always shaped into something coherent and accessible by his natural gift for storytelling - a gift that few of his contemporaries can rival. His books are a tonic for our jaded palates. ? Jonathan Coe
Author Bio
Nicholas Royle was born in Manchester in 1963. He is the author of five novels, including Antwerp. An assiduous champion of the short story, he has written more than 100 tales, which have appeared in a variety of anthologies and magazines. His latest collection is Mortality, shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize. He has edited twelve anthologies, including A Book of Two Halves and The Time Out Book of New York Short Stories. He lives in Manchester with his wife and two children, where he teaches creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.