The Litten Path

ISBN-13: 9781784631468 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 384 str.

James Clarke

Opis

The Litten Path begins on the eve of the vote to strike in March 1984, to November of that painful year. Taking in controversial events such as the Battle of Orgreave. Clarke's exceptional debut is peppered with pickets, collieries and the sunless landscapes that form the inner fabric of its people in a Britain forever lost in time.

Recenzje

Clarke moves easily between the registers of class and entitlement, and poverty and disappointment. The landscape, of which he writes with relish, is raw and ever-changing. When his enthusiastic use of imagery works, it is lovely and apposite: a river "golden as chip fat", a mouth "heady with lipstick"... A ferocious portrait of a time and place, The Litten Path is an uneven book but an important one.

Catherine Taylor The Guardian

O autorze

James Clarke grew up in the Rossendale Valley, Lancashire, and after living in London and spending time overseas, returned to Manchester, where he now lives. His work has appeared in Ambit, Litro and Northwords Now magazines, and his debut novel, The Litten Path, is forthcoming from Salt.