England Before the Rain

ISBN-13: 9781530822676 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 308 str.

Adam Wilderness

Opis

The hardest villains to confront are your own predatory hopes and fears. Stephen Connolly, self-taught artist, drops out of exclusive Cambridge University to paint in the slums of 1970s and 1980s Liverpool. The city is in turmoil from mass unemployment, riots and rejuvenation. He battles both anti-Semitism and his brutal Jewish mother, both merciless poverty and corrupting affluence. Stephen is pulled apart by two passions, for bed-mate and for soul-mate. The prostitute Anna teaches him urban survival. The petite lecturer Jenny clings to him like a mad mollusc to an unstable rock. But the greatest threats to his sanity are the monsters that emerge from the fog of his solitary and haunted childhood. Must he spend his life in a world of private demons and imaginary playmates? Or will he be saved by his art, his grim humour and the bastard miracle of love?

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